Landscapes after old masters
Pan Gongshou Chinese
In the waning years of the eighteenth century, the city of Zhenjiang gave rise to a new painting movement that would become one of the most vital forces in the visual arts of the late Qing dynasty. While sharing their contemporaries’ interest in studying old master styles, the painters of Zhenjiang brought their own sensibility to this practice, foregrounding patternization and a bold approach to surface texture. This album by Pan Gongshou, one of the founders of the school, shows him cycling through old masters both familiar and unknown, bringing a fresh new voice to a centuries-old discipline.
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