The document discusses Chinese art and culture from antiquity to the modern era, focusing on landscape painting traditions from the Song Dynasty as well as 20th century artists commenting on tradition, politics, and China's relationship to the global world. Major artists discussed include Fan Kuan, Ma Yuan, Xia Gui, Liang Kai, Mu Qi, Ai Weiwei, Fang Lijun, and Zhang Huan.

1. ART 299 VISUAL CULTURE GLOBAL CONTEXT

2. When you look at a map, be sure
to ask not only “where” but
“when”? Borders and territories
are always changing.

3. Map of China

4. Map of Qin archaeological sites

5. Tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, c. 211-206 BC

6. Great Wall of China

7. Standard Measure

8. Edict

9. Diagram of burial pits

10. Figures in situ

11. Archaeologists excavating the tomb

12. Pit 1

13. Archer

14. Archer, dtl hair

15. Archer, dtl foot

16. Reconstruction of crossbow

17. arrows

18. Infantry

21. The Chinese are known worldwide for their ceramic technology.
Their international reputation for this product is so strong that in
English we call anything made of ceramic “china.” Ceramics are
also potent symbol of Chinese culture within China.

22. Ai Weiwei
born 1957
Beijing
lives/works
Beijing

23. Ai, Neolithic Culture Pot with Coca-Cola Logo, 1992

24. Ai, Neolithic Culture Pot with
Coca-Cola Logo, 1992 Neolithic culture pot
We try to comprehend the past on its own terms. We
also view it through the lens of the present.

25. Ai, Vase with Coca-Cola Mark, 1994

26. Ai, Tang Dynasty Vase with Coca-Cola Mark, 1997

27. Ai, Whitewash, 1993-2000, 132 neolithic pots, white paint

28. Ai, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995

29. Ai, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995

30. Ai, installation photo with Bowls of Pearls

31. Ai, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995

32. “I don't think humans can ever really control this, and it
has become even less controllable. Circumstances are
now much more complicated than we can predict. For
example until quite recently there was no China or India
and now suddenly they are the factories of the world.
But people are still trying to figure out what this means
in relation to ideology, social and political structure, and
all kinds of other problems, like education and the
environment. I don't think there is a single reaction, at
least for myself that can answer these questions, or put
me at peace.”
—Ai Weiwei, from a recent interview

33. Where are we now?
What is our relationship to
tradition?

34. Abbreviated list of dynasties
 Qin (220-206 BC)
 Han (206BC-220 AD)
 Tang 618-906
 Song
 Northern Song 960-1127
 Southern Song 1127-1279

35. Song
 This is one of the “golden ages” of
Chinese culture.

36. Map, Northern Song

37. Map, Southern Song

38. Map of territories governed by the Southern Song

39. Types of Song painting
 Fans
 Pleated
 Stiff oval
 Albums (one page is called an album leaf)
 Hanging scroll
 Handscroll

40. Ren Bonian, Scholar on a Rock, c. 1880,
pleated fan later mounted as a album leaf, 7 1/2 x 21 3/16”

41. Stiff fan later mounted as an album leaf
Liang Kai, Poet Strolling by a Marshy Bank
9 x 9 9/16 inches

42. Artist unknown, Ascetic Monk, southern Song, pen and ink,
hanging scroll, 12 x 33 inches

43. Zhao Mengfu, Twin Pines, Level Distance
ink on paper, Yuan Dynasty

44. Handscroll
Liang Kai, Sericulture

45. Sericulture, section 1

46. Sericulture, Section 2

47. Sericulture, Section 3

48. Sericulture, fully extended

49. Fan Kuan
active
990-1130
Northern
Song

51. Fan Kuan, Travelers among Mountains and Streams, c. 990
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Clouds, 1818

52. Ma Yuan
active c.
1190-1225

53. Ma Yuan, Bamboo and Ducks by a Rushing Stream
hanging scroll

54. Ma Yuan, Composing Poetry on a Spring Outing, section of
handscroll

55. Ma Yuan, Watching the Deer by a Pine-Shaded Stream,
album leaf on silk

56. Ma Yuan, The Football Players

57. Ma Yuan, The Football Players, dtl

58. Ma Yuan, Drinking in the Moonlight

59. Ma Yuan, Drinking in the Moonlight, detail

60. Ma Yuan, Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight
ink on silk, fan mounted as album leaf, 9 x 10 inches

61. Ma Yuan, Scholar Viewing a Waterfall,
ink on silk, album leaf, 9 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches

62. Ma Yuan Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight
Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1809

63. Ma Yuan, Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight
Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849, oil on canvas, 46 x 36 inches

64. Ma Lin
son of Ma
Yuan
active during
early 13th c.

65. Landscape with Flying Geese

66. Listening to the Wind in the Pines

67. Listening to the Wind, detail of Figures

68. Ma Lin, Orchids

69. Ma Lin, Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds

70. Xia Gui
c. 1195-1224
Southern Song

71. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

72. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

73. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

74. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

75. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

76. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

77. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

78. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

79. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

80. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

81. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

82. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

83. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll

84. Liang Kai
southern Song dynasty
1201-4 painter-in-
attendance at the Song
painting academy in
Hangzhou
later relinquished that
position to live and
paint at a Chan (or
Zen, in Japanese)
Buddhist temple

85. Liang Kai, Hui Neng, Chopping Bamboo at the Moment of
Enlightenment, pen and ink, hanging scroll, 12 x 29 inches

86. Liang Kai, detail of Hui Neng

87. Liang Kai, Li Bo Chanting a Poem
ink on paper, 12 x 31 inches

88. Detail of Li Bo

89. Liang Kai, Poet Strolling by a Marshy Bank

90. Liang Kai, Poet Strolling by a Marshy Bank
Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-6

91. Mu Qi
active c. 1269
Yuan dynasty

92. Mu Qi, Six Persimmons

93. Alcove in Japanese temple, Kyoto, displaying Mu Qi’s Six
Persimmons

94. Mu Qi, Temple in the Evening Mist

95. Temple in the Evening Mist, detail

96. Entrance to Forbidden City, Tianamen Square, Beijing, China

97. Gavril Gorelovich, Demonstration in Red Square, 1936

98. Soviet painting of Red Square, 1936; depiction of
Tianamen Square, 1989

99. “Fight the Foreign Imperialists!” 1920s poster

100. Re-opening the door to Western influence

101. Nadezdha Kashina, Happy Childhood, 1931

102. Irina Shtange, Commune of Factory Youth, 1937

103. Aleksandr Deineka, V.I. Lenin out for a Drive with Children, 1938

104. Ekaterina Zhernova, Collective Farmers Greeting a Tank, 1937

105. Greeting a Tank, 1937; Defying a Tank, 1989

106. Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan, 1967

107. 1980 photograph with Mao mural

108. Preparing for National Day celebration, 1984

109. Statue of Mao in Wuhan Province, 1957

110. Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972

111. “Family Planning,” 1988 poster

112. Ma Lin, Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds, mid 13th c.
Stuart Franklin, Students Hunger Striking, Tianamen Square, 1989

113. Fang Lijun
1963 born Handun,
Hebei province, China
1989 Graduate, Print
Dept., Central Institute of Fine
Arts, Beijing, China
2005 Professor, Hebei
Training University Art
College, China
Lives/works Beijing

117. Fang Lijun, Group Two, No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas 78 3/4 x 78 3/4
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, oil on canvas

118. Fang Lijun, Group Two, No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas 78 3/4 x 78 3/4
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1970, 14 x 12 inches

119. Fang Lijun, Group Two, No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas 78 3/4 x 78 3/4
Chinese Poster, c. 1960

120. Zhang Huan, To Add 1 Meter to an Unknown Mountain, 1995
c-print

121. Zhang Huan, To Add 1 Meter, 1995
Great Wall of China

122. How would you compare and contrast the relationship
between humans and the natural world in the work of
Fan Kuan and Zhang Huan?

123. http://museums.cnd.org/cr/old/maobadge/