Qing dynasty artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
What is Chinese painting? What makes it Chinese and why is it different from Western painting? In this lecture we will look at paintings from the Tang dynasty (618-907) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and at the ideas that shaped a unique pictorial language. Landscape painting was considered the superior subject for painting, as it was felt it could best express moral and cosmic principles. The Chinese word for landscape painting is sanshui (山水画), meaning mountain-water painting. Landscape painting was to harmonise yin with yang, mountain with water. The paintings are made with the incredibly versatile Chinese brush, the same as is used for their calligraphy, to which painting is closely connected. Daoist and Confucian thought underpin just about every aspect of the paintings.
Lecturer: Oliver Gosling
Born 1958. Painter, trained at Royal College of Art. Exhibits internationally. Work in collections around the world. Lived, exhibited in Japan for two years (1998-2001), China for eight years (2007-2015), where he continues to be represented by two galleries. Lectured widely in China on contemporary art in Britain and own work, and for Christie’s in Hong Kong: The Impact of Western Contemporary Painting on Far Eastern Painting. From 1994 to date: Lecturer, BA Fine Art Painting and MA Fine Art, University of Brighton; From 2001 to date: Lecturer, Certificate in the History of Art, University of Oxford (Materials and Techniques of Western Painting). Currently represented by the Fanxi Delarue Gallery, France.
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