The document summarizes Chinese art from the Tang dynasty through the Qing dynasty. It provides examples of paintings from different historical periods in China including landscapes from the Song dynasty, handscroll paintings from the Yuan dynasty, literati paintings from the late Yuan dynasty, bird and flower paintings from the Ming dynasty, and landscape paintings in the manner of earlier artists from the Qing dynasty. The document also includes examples of calligraphy and poetry integrated with painting from the Tang and Ming dynasties as well as contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's large-scale installation from 2010.

1. Chinese Art after 1279

3. China
Tang dynasty (618–907)
Five Dynasties (907-960)
Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Mongol Invasion (early 13th c.)
Yuan Dynasty (13th c.)
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

5. Du hua
“to read a painting”
The integration of calligraphy, poetry, and painting,
scholar artists for the first time combined the “Three
perfections” in a single work of art.

6. Han Gan, Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618–907), ca. 750.

7. Zhao Mengfu, Groom and Horse, 1296, Handscroll, Ink and Color
[Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)].

8. Zhao Mengfu, Twin Pines, Level Distance,
Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), ca. 1300.

9. techniques and formats of Chinese painting

10. Fan Kuan, Travelers Among
Mountains and Streams, Northern
Song Dynasty, 11th century,
hanging scroll.

11. Perugino, The Delivery of the Keys To St. Peter, 1481
(11’ 5 1/2" × 18’ 8 1/2”).

12. Mantegna, Camera degli Sposi,
c. 1474.

13. Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colors on the Qiao
and Hua Mountains, 1296. Yuan Dynasty, handscroll.
online at national museum

14. Fan Kuan, Travelers Among
Mountains and Streams, Northern
Song Dynasty, 11th century,
hanging scroll.

15. Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colors on the Qiao and
Hua Mountains, Yuan Dynasty, 1296.
(details)

16. Late Yuan Literati Painting
Ni Zhan, The Rongxi Studio, 1372,
Yuan Dynasty, hanging scroll.

17. Yin Hong, Hundreds of Birds Admiring
the Peacocks, Ming Dynasty, late 15th/early 16th century.

18. Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountaintop,
Leaf from an album of landscapes,
mounted as part of a handscroll. Ming dynasty. C. 1500.

19. White clouds sash-like
wrap mountain waists,
The rock terrace flies in space,
distant, a narrow path.
Leaning on a bramble staff,
far and free I gaze,
To the warble of valley brook
I will reply, whistling.
-Shen Zhou

21. Dong Qichang,
The Qingbian Mountains in the Manner
of Tung Yuan, 1617.
video

22. Shitao, Landscape, c. 1700.

23. The “David” Vases.

25. Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds/Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2010.