Yuan Yao (born and died unknown), Qing Dynasty painter, zi zhaodao, a native of Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu). Nephew of Yuan Jiang. Painting landscapes, pavilions, and boundary paintings. The painting style is neat and gorgeous, similar to Yuan Jiang. Its fine products are better than those of Yuan Jiang. It is also very good to be a flower and bird. Qianlong's eleventh year of "Twelve Views of Lishan Mountain to Avoid Summer", Qianlong's forty-fifth year of "Afang Palace Map", now in the Nanjing Museum. It was about the middle of the Qianlong period. Not only the green and green landscapes, the pavilion works are famous, and the flowers and birds he paints are also very good. There are more works circulating than Yuan Jiang. And often drastically. The paintings of "View of the Waterfall" and "View of the Qiujiang Building" are exquisite in terms of layout, rendering, and even point scene characters. There are large and exquisite works such as "Afang Palace Map" and "Twelve Views of Lishan Summer Escape". The Twelve Views of Mount Riki is now in Japan.
This group of four landscape screens is the work of Yuan Yao in his later years, and it is painted as four scenic spots in the northern suburbs of Yangzhou, all of which are sketches. "Spring Terrace Bright Moon" paints a pleasant spring color, the branches of the lake shore are new green, the weeping willows are yiyi, the pen is delicate and beautiful, and the color is light and elegant. "Advective Waterfall" paints the shade of tall trees in summer, and the lush forest is dyed with a thick ink color, and the flowers are lush. "Wansong Stacked Cui" writes the meaning of Xiao Ser in autumn, the composition is flat and clear, the distant mountain stones are outlined in stick figures, the forest is sparse, and only the evergreen pine trees are still stacked. "Pinggang Yanxue" paints the winter earth covered with snow, the old plum is independent, the look is dashing, the branches are sophisticated and vigorous with a pen, and then dyed with rouge and white powder dots. The painter placed the pavilions and pavilions and famous gardens on both sides of the Slender West Lake in the nature of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and used the exquisite techniques of traditional boundary painting to truly display the prosperous scene of Yangzhou's "two banks of flowers and willows all by the water, all the way to the mountain" in front of the viewer.
Qing Yuan Yao Penglai Wonderland Scroll Silk Color 266.2×163cm Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
Qing Yuan Yao Han Palace Autumn Moon Scroll Silk Color 129×61.3cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Qing Yuan Yao Mountain Rain To Come Scroll Silk Color 195.1×116.8cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Qing Yuan Yao Jiucheng Palace Scroll Silk Color 189.7×230.7cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Qing Yuan Yao Shanshui Lou Pavilion Scroll Silk Color 202.3×118.5cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Qing Yuan Yao Mountain Villa Autumn Scroll Silk Color 182.5×96.8cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Qing Yuan Yao Landscape Four Screens - Chuntai Mingyue
Qing Yuan Yao Four screens of landscape and water - advective gushing waterfall
Qing Yuan Yao Four screens of landscape and water - Wansong Stacked Cui
Qing Yuan Yao Four screens of landscape and water - Pinggang Yanxue