Landscape

Abstract

A recent exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taipei brought together two long- separated pieces of the single most celebrated landscape painting in the history of China: Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains . This chapter presents an overview of landscape as a theme in Chinese art; emphasis is placed on the subjectivity that underlies the experience of mountains and waters. The silk banner from the tomb of Marquise Dai bears no obvious reference to landscape. Nonetheless, the author argues that it presents an important early template for what might be called the landscape experience. Landscape's emergence as a dominant subject in painting did not occur until sometime toward the end of the Tang dynasty in the ninth century, and there is little doubt that one of the factors that led to its flowering was the experimentation with new painting techniques that took place approximately a century or so earlier.

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