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Journey through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern
Journey through Mountains and Rivers is a rare opportunity to view some of the Nelson-Atkins most celebrated Song Dynasty (960-1279) paintings, which, because of their fragility, will not be displayed again for ten years. This is the first showing in the United States of one of China's new generation of landscape painters, Xu Longsen.
Journey through Mountains and Rivers is a rare opportunity to view some of the Nelson-Atkins most celebrated Song Dynasty (960-1279) paintings, which, because of their fragility, will not be displayed again for ten years. This is the first showing in the United States of one of China’s new generation of landscape painters, Xu Longsen.
For thousands of years Chinese poets and painters have revered nature as a source of spiritual and artistic inspiration. In these ancient and modern landscape paintings, discover towering mountains and craggy cliffs, winding rivers and joyous fishermen, scholars composing poems or dreaming of immortals. Climb to half-hidden temples among dense forests, peer into mists and imagine infinity. And be encircled by the largest Chinese landscape ever created, The Law of the Dao Is Its Being What it Is.
Image: Li Cheng , Chinese , 919-967 C.E. A Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). Hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk, 88 x 22 1/2 inches. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 47-71.
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