Description In the collection of National Palace Museum, Taibei Ma Yuan (1190-1225) depicted several peasants making Tage (a kind of Chinese folk dance, which is like western tap dance) at a valley in the spring. A vernal and beaming environment were presented through simple lines and light colors, even without grass and flowers.
Biographical Details Ma Yuan (1160/65, born in Qiantang, Zhejiang province—died 1225) Chinese landscape painter. Born into a family of court painters, Ma Yuan began his career under the emperor. Xiaozong(reg1162-1189), became daizhao (“painter-in-attendance”) under Emperor. Guangzong(reg1189-1194), and received the highest honor, the Golden Belt, under Emperor. Ningzong(reg1194-1224). Apart from these facts, little is known about Ma’s life. He occasionally painted flowers and figure subjects, but it was in landscape painting that his genius lay. He executed a number of large landscape screens, all of which are now lost. He also painted tall hanging scrolls depicting steep mountains with streams, waterfalls, and vigorously yet elegantly rendered pine trees. In many of his works, the mountains are pushed to one side, creating a “one corner” composition; between the distant mountains and the foreground rocks, where a scholar may be sitting, lies an expanse of empty space with a suggestion of mist or water. Ma’s style was popular with late Song painters, and it is often difficult to distinguish his works from those of his followers. The romantic landscape style of Ma and his contemporary Xia Gui (1180-1230) inspired a school of painting that came to be known as the Ma-Xia school, characterized by a symmetrical compositions with simplified ink tones and angular brushstrokes.
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