Artist best known as the painter of Travelers
Amid Streams and Mountains, the greatest single example of the
monumental-landscape style of painting and a benchmark painting for all Chinese
artists. The painting, nearly seven feet tall, is based on the Taoist principle
of becoming one with nature. Fan's style -- reducing human figures to minute
proportions and dramatizing the remarkable power of nature -- has led critics to
evaluate his creative powers with those of nature itself
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Artcyclopedia: Fan Kuan Posters More Artists Fan Kuan. [Chinese, Active C.1000]
The artwork of Fan Kuan can be found in the following online exhibits: ...
Untitled
Fan Kuan, Travelers among Streams and Mountains, Northern Song pd. (ca. 1000).
Hanging scroll, ink on silk. Ht. 206.3 cm. National Palace Museum, Taiwan.
Sino:
Landscape Painter-- Fan Kuan
... bloom during the Song. In Fan Kuan's era, landscape painting overtook
portraiture
to become the mainstream of Chinese painting. Particularly during the Song ...
11cent
1000-1099 Fan Kuan. * Born Fan Kuan, in the eleventh century, China.
* Common Chinese belief at this time was Daoism,. ... ("Fan Kuan").
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Travellers
Amid Mountains & Streams, Fan Kuan, c. 1000
Travellers Amid Mountains & Streams, Fan Kuan, c. 1000.
Art
222: Fan Kuan
... FAN KUAN. Fan Kuan Travelers Among Mountains and
Streams Song dynasty (early 11th c.). ...