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Wang Ximeng, Detail of A Thousand Li of River, 1113, ink on silk, 2’ x 39’ (full scroll size), Palace Museum, Palace Museum, The Forbidden City, Beijing, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How to Read a Chinese Landscape Painting

Wang Ximeng was a prodigy artist working in China during the Northern Song Dynasty during the early twelfth century.  He painted his masterpiece, A Thousand Li of River, a long landscape scroll painting, when he was only eighteen years old in … Continue reading