Fan Kuan (990–1030) produced the tableau “Travelers amid Mountains and Streams,” one of the most frequently reproduced examples of Chinese landscape painting. In art history, it is famous for its celebration of the raw power of the natural world. Fan Kuan based the painting on the Taoist principle of reclusion. The composition emphasizes the monumentality of nature―a packhorse train can barely be seen emerging from a forest at the base of a huge precipice.
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- Sullivan, Michael. The Arts of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
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