Dong Yuan, known as the "Jiangnan people", was born and died in unknown years, and his main activities were in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and after the death of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he entered the Song Dynasty and was regarded as the founding master of the Southern School of landscape painting. At the beginning of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, Dong Yuan's achievements in landscape painting were not valued, and the Northern Song Dynasty made a very high evaluation of his paintings.
Southern Tang Dynasty Dong Yuan Xia Jingshan Pass To Be Crossed Scroll Silk Light Color Length 50 cm Width 320 cm Collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum
Dong Qichang of the Ming Dynasty was highly respected by Dong Yuan, treating Dong Yuan as an authentic person in the history of the development of landscape painting, and then running Through The Four Families of Wang Wei, Li Cheng, Mi Fu and Yuan to form the Department of Literati Painting.
Qing Wang Yi imitated Dong Yuan's Xia Jing Mountain Pass to be crossed
Dong Yuan (934 – c. 962) was a Chinese painter of the Fifth Dynasty of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Yizuo Dongyuan (一作東元), courtesy name Shuda, was a native of Zhongling, Jiangxi (present-day Jinxian County, Nanchang, Jiangxi), who called himself a "Jiangnan native", whose birth and death years are unknown, and whose main activities were during the Southern Tang Dynasty (934-960). Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was then the deputy envoy of Beiyuan, so he was also known as "Dong Beiyuan", and after the death of southern Tang, he entered the Song Dynasty and was regarded as the founding master of southern landscape painting.
Xiaoxiang Picture Scroll Five Dynasties Dong Yuan Length 50 cm Width 141 cm Silk Ink Pen Beijing Palace Museum
The volume of "Xiaoxiang Tu", at the end of the Ming Dynasty, through the Henan yuan shu (Yuan Kelizi) to hushuguan apartment with his treasures, was able to escape the soldiers, painting the scenery of Jiangnan. The landscapes, trees and stones are shrouded in ethereal haze, appearing plain and deep, vast and deep. The grass and trees of jiangnan landscape are flourishing, and the lushness is expressed.
Dong Yuan is good at painting autumn scenery, and the full stage shows the beautiful and colorful landscapes of the southern landscape. Its landscapes are mostly painted with the real mountains of Jiangnan, rather than being a strange brush. The record says that he painted many landscapes of Jiangnan as "plain and innocent, and Tang did not have this product" in his paintings. Mi Fu once praised its landscape and water: "If you don't pretend to be clever, you have to be naïve." Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty called it similar to Li Sixun.
Xiashan Picture Scroll Five Dynasties Dong Yuan Ink on Silk Pale Color Length 49.2 cm Width 313.2 cm Collection of Shanghai Museum
Summerhill picture volume partial
"Xiashan Map" volume, the composition is taken from a high distance, a school of Jiangnan mountain township weather. There is a sense of lushness and extreme vacillation. This painting was once collected by Yuan Shu in the late Ming Dynasty. Now in the collection of the Shanghai Museum;
In his early years, he studied Li Sixun and also studied under Wang Wei. In the "Painting Book" of the Five Dynasties, it is recorded that there are two kinds of Dongyuan landscapes: the same ink painting, the landscape is more wrinkled; the same coloring, there are very few wrinkles, and the characters mostly use red and green clothes. Both are masterpieces.
Streambank Diagram Five Generations Dong Yuan Silk Color Length 221.5 cm Width 110 cm Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA
Creek bank map partial
The "Xi'an Map" was collected by Suiyang Yuan Shu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and was later collected by Xu Beihong in the 1940s. When Zhang Daqian learned that the "Creek Bank Map" had appeared, he entrusted someone to tell Xu that he was willing to exchange the "Creek Bank Map" with any of his collections. However, a few years after Zhang Daqian got this ancient painting that he loved, he took it abroad and sold it to Wang Jiqian, a calligraphy and painting dealer and great collector. It was not until the 1980s that Wang Jiqian sold the painting to the Chinese entrepreneur Tang Shi. In the end, the Tang family donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is now in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Longsu Suburban People's Figure Five Dynasties Dong Yuan Silk Color Length 156 cm Width 160 cm Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Longsu suburban people map partial
Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty mentioned in the "Mengxi Pen Talk": "Dong Yuanshan painting, Longgong Qiulan long-distance view, more writing about the true mountains of Jiangnan, not for the strange mountains and steep pens", also known as "its use of pen is very sloppy, myopia is not similar to the object, the distant view is the scenery is natural ..."
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