Minneapolis Institute of Art

Landscape After Huang Gongwang

Wang Yu

Date

1752

Medium

Ink and colors on paper

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

This monumental composition pays tribute to the famous Yuan dynasty scholar-painter Huang Gongwang (1269–1354). It is an attempt to combine two of Huang’s preferred compositional methods in one landscape. One of them is pingyuan , or “level-distance” perspective, defined as looking from a place in the foreground into the far distance across a flat landscape. The other is gaoyuan , or “high-distance, ” in which the viewer is placed at the bottom of a grand mountain looking up toward the summit. The painting shows a panoramic level-distance view, allowing the viewer’s eye to be carried back into the depth of the composition through clearly marked stages. A rolling outline closes the high peaks in the background to demonstrate the “high distance.” China, Asia

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