Fan Zhongzheng (c. 960 – c. 1030), [3] [1] courtesy name Zhongli, better known by his pseudonym Fan Kuan (Chinese: 范寬; pinyin: Fàn Kuān; Wade–Giles: Fan K’uan), was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty. He was both a Daoist and a Neo-Confucianist. [4]

2015年2月14日 · Fan Kuan painted a 206.3 cm (about 6.75 feet) landscape known as the Travelers among Mountains and Streams, which is considered one of the finest monumental landscape paintings by a Chinese artist. It also became a model for later Chinese painters.

In his masterful balance of li and qi, Fan Kuan created a microcosmic image of a moral and orderly universe. Fan Kuan looked to nature and carefully studied the world around him. He expressed his own response to nature.

2019年6月9日 · Fan Kuan (范宽), famous because of the painting "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams", was one of the Three Landscape Masters of the Early Song Dynasty.

2012年3月31日 · Fan Kuan creates rocks, trees, and all other elements in the painting through his unique texture strokes and washes. A Taoist recluse, Fan Kuan is best known as the painter of Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains, the greatest example of the monumental-landscape style of painting and a model for all Chinese artists. This monumental painting is ...

From near to far, Fan Kuan has described with realistic detail the solemn grandeur of a majestic landscape. Fan Kuan rendered the mountains and slopes with jagged outline strokes and filled them with brush dabs like raindrops – techniques that highlight the monumental and eternal features of the mountains.

…was the early 11th-century painter Fan Kuan, who began by following Li Cheng’s style but turned to studying nature directly and finally followed only his own inclinations. He lived as a recluse in the mountains of Shaanxi, and a Song writer said that “his manners and appearance were stern and…

One of the most important artists of Northern Song landscape painting, Fan’s works incorporate Neo-Confucianist and Daoist principles.

Fan Kuan, a native of Huayuan (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province), was a prominent master landscapist in the ‘Northern School’ in the Northen Song Dynasty. Fan Kuan, along with Dong Yuan and Li Cheng, is collectively known as …

2020年9月27日 · Fan Kuan painted a bold and straightforward example of Chinese landscape painting. After the long period of political disunity (the Five Dynasties period), Fan Kuan lived as a recluse and was one of many poets and artists of the time who were disenchanted with human affairs. He turned away from the world to seek spiritual enlightenment.