Wang Yuanqi
1642–1715 · Chinese painting: Qing · 3 works
Wang Yuanqi learned painting from his grandfather Wang Shimin and studied the work of earlier Chinese landscape masters. He combined that practice with a career in government, helping establish an influential approach to painting at the Qing court. His landscapes develop through connected masses of rock, trees, and shifting ground. These forms do more than describe a place: their changing directions give the composition movement. A title such as Landscape after Huang Gongwang identifies an artistic source while leaving room to notice Wang Yuanqi’s own decisions.
3 works · 1701–1708
Follow the landscape upward from the foreground. Where does the direction change, and what connects one group of forms to the next?
