Guohua Landscape Paintings of China
Throughout this class many different artistic styles and different methods of painting, there was one that I wished had been covered. My fascination of this art began at a very early age from the stem of Disney movie Mulan. The use of watered Ink and landscape paintings in China has always seemed like a majestic kind of magic, the depths of art they achieve with the use of ink and water. So for the last blog, and a farewell to this amazing class, I chose to do my exhibit on the Chinese artistic style of Guohua, a central genre of national painting during the early 20 th century. The artists I wish to focus on are amongst the most famous and revered guohua painters during this time: Huang Binhong, Liu Haisu, He Tianjian, Wu Hufan, and Fu Baoshi. 1945-55, Landscapes by Huang Binhong China Executed with the use of different brushstrokes, different angles, pressure, and multiple layers for density of ink. Binhong deemed paintings such as these as the “order of disorder”, if you
