Ruled-painting

Feng Zikai Chinese

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The use of a straightedge for architectural paintings, particularly fashionable during the Song dynasty (960–1279) when realism enjoyed a vogue, is updated by Feng Zikai in this simple depiction of the courtyard of a traditional Chinese compound. His witty marriage of traditional architectural drawing to Western perspectival techniques is typically unprepossessing.

Ruled-painting, Feng Zikai (Chinese, 1898–1975), Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, China

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Ruled-painting, Feng Zikai (Chinese, 1898–1975), Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, China
Ruled-painting, Feng Zikai (Chinese, 1898–1975), Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, China

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