c.960–c.1030 · Chinese · Northern Song landscape painting
Fan Kuan was a Northern Song dynasty painter whose monumental ink-on-silk landscape Travelers Among Mountains and Streams is considered one of the greatest paintings in Chinese art. Working from direct observation of the Shaanxi mountains, he established the model of the towering monumental landscape that defined the early Song style.
Best known for: Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Impressionism
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Light, weather and modern Paris on canvas.
Post-Impressionism
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Bold colour and personal vision past the Impressionists.
Japanese Woodblock
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Mount Fuji, the Great Wave and Edo street life.
Renaissance
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Italian and northern masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Botanical & Natural History
25
Plates of birds, flowers and insects drawn from life.
Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist
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Late Victorian myth, dream and gothic figure.
Art Nouveau Posters
14
Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec in the great Paris poster era.
Dutch Golden Age
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Vermeer, Rembrandt and the quiet light of 1600s Holland.
Maps & Celestial Charts
4
Engraved world maps and star atlases from the age of exploration.
Romanticism
23
Storms, ruins and sublime landscapes from Turner, Friedrich and Goya.
Chinese Landscape
4
Song, Yuan and Ming masters of the mountain-and-water tradition.
Persian, Mughal & Indian
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Miniatures and album leaves from the great Eastern courts.
Modernism & Abstraction
4
Hilma af Klint, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich and the abstract pioneers.
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