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Zhao Mengu and Guan Daosheng: Zhao Mengu
descendent of the first song emperor. accepted an offical post under kublai khan. he won renown as a painter of horses and landscape.
Yuan Dynasty: Marco Polo
he traveled to and within china, he was the only eyewitness description of East Asia in Europe for serval centuries. His account makes it clear that the Venetian had a profound admiration for Yuan China.
Wen Shu Ming Dynasty: fan painting
in this genre, the artist paints on flat paper, but then folds the completed painting and mounts it on sticks to form a fan. The best completed painting and mounts it on sticks to form a fan. The best fan paintings were probably never used as fans. collectors purchased them to store in albums.
Wen Shu
the daughter of an aristocratic Suzhou family and the wife of Zhao Jun, descended from Zhao Mengfu and the song imperial house was the finest flower painter of the ming era.
Jingdezhen porcelain: Chinese Potters
By the yuan period had extended their mastery to fully developed porcelains a tall temple vase during the Ming dynasty became the official source of porcelains for the court.
Ming dynasty, Suzhou Gardens
Chinese pleasure garden designing a ming garden was not a matter of cultivating plants in rows of laying out terraces, flower beds and avenues in geometric fashion, instead ming gardens are often scenic arrangements of natural artificial elements intended to reproduce the irregularities of uncultivated nature.
Ming dynasty Orchard Factory: Jingdezhen and lacquered wood
Emperors turned to the Jingdezhen kilns for fine porcelains and lacquered wood patronage went to a large workshop known today as the orchard factory.
Shen Zhou (Ming):
His work and others designed to promote the official ming ideology, differs sharply in both form and content from the venerable tradition of literati painting (flourished in Ming) He was a leading figure, who was master of the Wu School of painting so called because of the ancient name Wu of the city of Suzhou. He came from a family of scholars and painters, turning down to serve in the Ming Bureaucracy in order to devote himself to pottery and painting.
China and Korea After 1279: the opening decade brought the establishment of a Muslim sultanate at Delhi after what?
The Islamic armies of Muhammad of Ghor wrested power from India's Hindu Kings. Momentous changes followed immediately in China.
Zhao Mengu and Guan Daosheng: Mongols
admiriers of chinese are and culture selective in admitting former southern subjects into their admistration.
Ming Southern Chan Buddhist:
believed that enlightenment could come suddenly
China: Genghis Khan
leader and under his leadership the Mongol armies made an extraordinarily swift advance in china. His grandson caused the last song emperor fell at his hands and proclaimed himself the new emperor of China and founded the yuan dynasty.
Ming Dynasty: Zhu Yuanzhong
led popular uprising that drove the last Mongol emperor from Beijing. Founded native Chinese ming dynasty and first emperor under the official name of Hongwu. built his capital at Nanjing.
Wen Shu Ming Dynasty: landscape painting
most prestigious artistic subject in Ming china, it was the preferred theme of male literati, women artist usually painted other subjects like flowers.
Ming Dynasty Shang XI Ming Court Artist
official painters lived in the forbidden city itself, and portraiture of the imperial family was their major subject. Depicted historical figures as examples of virtue, wisdom, or heroism.
Ming northern and southern side:
stylistic symbols Dong choose these names because he determined that both their character had parallels in the northern and southern schools of Chan Buddhism.
Bamboo:
symbol of the ideal chinese gentleman, who does not break
Dong Qichang view (Ming)
that Chinese painters could be classified as belonging to either the northern school or precise, academic painting or the southern school of more subjective painting
Ming Dynasty: Yongle
third emperor, moved the capital back to Beijing.
Ming Northern Chan Buddhism:
were "gradualists" and believed that enlightenment could be archived only after long training.
Guan Daosheng:
wife of Zhao successful painter, calligrapher, and peot. Painted a variety of subjects, including buddhist murals in yuan temples. became famous for her painting of bamboo
Wu Zhen:
yuan painter, spark contrast to Zhao Mengfu and his wife. shunned the mongol court and lived as a hermit, or scholar artists, who emerged during the song dynasty.