Guo Xi
Chinese·1020–1090
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Guo Xi (c. 1020-c. 1090) was a Chinese landscape painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, considered one of the greatest masters in the history of Chinese art. He served as court painter to Emperor Shenzong and wrote the influential treatise The Lofty Message of Forest and Streams, which laid out principles for landscape painting.
His Early Spring (1072) in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is considered one of the greatest Chinese landscape paintings. Guo Xi developed the concept of "three distances" in landscape composition and pioneered techniques for depicting atmospheric effects and seasonal change in ink wash.
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About Guo Xi
Guo Xi was a Northern Song landscape master whose Early Spring (1072) is one of the greatest Chinese paintings. He also wrote The Lofty Message of Forest and Streams, a foundational treatise on landscape painting.
Early Spring is at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Freer Gallery in Washington hold other works attributed to him.
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