Author:Liu Yen-Tao(1908-1998)
Category：Ink Painting
Media:Ink and color on paper
Year：1953
Size description：80×39cm
Introduction：This painting arranges its foreground, middle ground, and background in ascending layers, with the foreground and middle ground employing a composition style reminiscent of riverside scenes typical of ancient Chinese Song and Yuan Dynasty landscapes. The nearer bank's terrain and upright trees evoke Yuan Dynasty literati landscapes, with a small path leading to dwellings on the right side, creating a sense of depth in the foreground. The middle ground features unusual rock formations, low-lying streams, and layered rocky ravines. The distant mountains snake in a "Z" pattern and are interwoven with band-like mists, enhancing the spatial depth of the landscape. This piece uses pale crimson shades in the landscapes with a dry linear style to outline the mountains and rocks, colored in light green and light ochre, and then shaded with light ink and detailed with dark ink on moss. The result is lush and richly layered with an ancient charm, clearly showing Liu Yen-tao's influences from Song and Yuan Dynasty literati paintings and calligraphy works, and masters like Shi Tao and Bada Shanren.
Accession number:20220059