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2,000 Years of Chinese Art: Understanding Painting Through Landscape
The Chinese Way of Seeing Beauty
Completed · 77 episodes
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Wang Ruiyun: Let Beauty Enter the Heart, and a Person Will Change Leung Man-tao: Beyond Reality, Keep a Dream of Mountains and Rivers 0. Moon and Finger: Mountains Are Not Mountains—and Mountains Are Mountains Again 1. The Great Wind Rises and the Clouds Fly: From Pre-Qin to the Six Dynasties 2. Qin-Han Landscape: Where Painting and Pattern Intertwine 3. The Six Dynasties: An Age of Rapidly Advancing Public Art 4. Landscape Painting Takes Shape: Viewpoints and Early Three-Dimensional Structure 5. The Earliest Landscape Painting: Spring in Spring Excursion 6. In the Age of Sunlight, Shadows Also Took Form 7. Empty Mountains, Three Distances, and Tang Art in the Shōsōin 8. Landscape Within Landscape: Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao's Blue-Green Style 9. The Birth of Space: Realist Early-Modern Style and Technique 10. Wu Daozi, Destroyer of Refinement, and Wang Wei, Lover of Pale Color 11. Archaic Expression and Estranging Splashed Ink: Possibilities of Ink Painting 12. Metaphysical Five Dynasties and Northern Song: The Ink Age Arrives 13. Mountains Seen and Unseen: Ink Expression and the Birth of Poetic Ambience 14. The Heart of Heaven and Earth in Mount Kuanglu: A Classic Is Born 15. Poetic Ambience and Spatial Melancholy: Li Cheng's Gothic Aesthetic 16. Silence Beyond Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Fan Kuan's Travelers Among Mountains and Streams 17. Ripples South of the Yangtze: Dong Yuan and the Dong-Ju School 18. Guo Xi's Early Spring: The Aleph, or a Landscape That Does Not Exist Bonus | The Lofty-Distance Panorama of Mount Kuanglu 19. Riverbank and Chinese “All-Factor” Painting 20. A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains: If Wang Ximeng Had Lived Longer 21. Landscape Behind Pine and Stone: Time Begins 22. The Heartsick Wang Shen: The Far Shore and Light on Snow 23. Cloud-Mountain Ink Play: Simplicity and Rebellion in the Mi Family Style 24. Eternal Xiao-Xiang: Poetry and Distance as a Pictorial Formula 25. Su Dongpo, Weary Traveler: Literati Painting and Human Feeling 26. Sequential Art in Landscape: Li Gonglin and Qiao Zhongchang's Plain-Line Drawing 27. Refined Nobility: Zhao Lingrang's Wet Leaves and Zhao Bosu's Departed Immortals 28. In the Southern Song, Chinese Painting Nears the End of a Cycle 29. Forceful Landscape: Li Tang's Wind in Pines Among Myriad Valleys 30. After Li Tang: Bandit Painter Xiao Zhao and the Southern Song “Courbet” Liu Songnian 31. The Height of Realism: Chinese Painting Through Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu 32. Towers Lost in Mist: The Rise of Minimal and Hazy Landscape 33. The Averted Gaze: Ma Yuan and Mysticism 34. The Aesthetic of Wintry Forests—or Being-Toward-Death 35. As Before the Divine: Snow Bamboo and Snow Landscapes 36. Ma Hezhi: An Elegant Beast, the Southern Song Matisse 37. Crystalline Beauty and Empty Corners: Xia Gui's Pure and Remote View 38. Such Scenery Exists: Intimate Song Views and Spring Dawn Over Streams and Mountains 39. Landscape Painting's Second Half: After the “End” of Painting 40. One Gull-Wave in Five Hundred Years: Zhao Mengfu's Revival and Revolution 41. Qian Xuan's Method: From the Height of Splendor Back to Plainness 42. Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains: The Rescued “Orchid Pavilion” of Landscape 43. Cool Reserve Preserves True Friendship: The Pure-Hearted Ni Zan 44. Sound and Fury: Wang Meng's Tremor 45. Fishermen in Landscape and Wu Zhen's Momentary Escape 46. Two Kinds of Cloud-Mountain Ink Play: Gao Kegong's Human World and Fang Congyi's Great Void 47. The Academy Departs and Literati Painting Reaches Its Height 48. Two Forms of Nature: Realism and Invention in Wang Lü and Wang Fu 49. Inside the Landscape: Shen Zhou Between Ancient Models and the Avant-Garde 50. Culture Resides Here: Wen Zhengming's Elegance and Materiality 51. Solitary Pleasure over Shared Delight: Palace and Garden Painting 52. Gentle Breezes and Sudden Rain: Southern Song Academy Painting in the Ming 53. The Last Radiance of Southern Song Style: Tang Yin and Qiu Ying's Farewell Symphony 54. A Millennium of Blue and Green: A Brief History 55. Painting Explained Through Chan: Dong Qichang's Northern and Southern Schools 56. Ancient Magical Surrealism: Huang Daozhou and Wu Bin's Dislocated Landscapes 57. Late-Ming Mannerism and Revivalism: Zhan Jingfeng, Ding Yunpeng, Wu Bin, and Chen Hongshou 58. The Late Phase of the Late Phase: Qing Landscape 59. How Postmodernity Remade Classicism: The Four Wangs' Orthodoxy and Awkwardness 60. “I Regret the Ancients Never Saw Me”: Shitao Rediscovers the World 61. “As If Swimming Through Empty Air”: Bada Shanren's Ink Body 62. A Body Beyond the Body: Jian Jiang's Metaphysics and Kuncan's Wild Spirit 63. Arriving at Silence: Gong Xian's Primordial Realm 64. Only Autumn Sounds Best: The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou and the Last Yuan-Style Ripple 65. Modern Painting's Overlapping Times and Spaces: The East Is Light 66. Redefining Freehand Painting: Calligraphy and Painting in Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi 67. Strange Visions in Ancient Brushwork: Huang Binhong, Traditional Yet Open 68. Xu Beihong's Success and Failure: East-West Time Lag and the Dream of a Strong Nation 69. Sleeping in the Wind: Lin Fengmian and Formalism in Modern Chinese Art 70. Brush and Ink Follow the Times: Fu Baoshi and Zhang Daqian Modernize Tradition Update | Wei Xi: May Everything Get Better—Happy New Year! 71. With My Broken Hand: Historical Ruin and Modern Global Ruin Aesthetics 72. New Life Stirs: Li Keran and Landscape in a New Era