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Mountains and water: Chinese landscape painting
20th century
In modern times, landscapes remain an important
part of Chinese painting. In this hanging scroll the tops of the
mountains are painted in ink wash with rather wild spirals of
brushwork winding in towards the centre. This shows Fu
Baoshi's interest in an earlier seventeenth-century
individualist painter called Shitao, who also painted rocks like
this. Fu Baoshi liked Shitao so much that he changed his name to
Baoshi, which means 'Treasuring
Shi'.
Fu Baoshi
studied in Japan in the 1930s. He worked at the ceramic centre of
Jingdezhen and also taught painting in Nanjing and Chongqing, where
he painted this in the early 1940s.