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Donkees

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Tue Feb 1, 2022, 05:39 PM Feb 2022

🏮Spring Festival Gala: "The Painting Journey - The Legend of a Panorama of Mountains and Rivers"



Jan 31, 2022

The poetic dance, "The Painting Journey – The Legend of a Panorama of Mountains and Rivers," highlights the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting, is the latest creation by Han Zhen and Zhou Liya, the joint directors and choreographers of the popular dance drama " The Eternal Wave."
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🏮Spring Festival Gala: "The Painting Journey - The Legend of a Panorama of Mountains and Rivers" (Original Post) Donkees Feb 2022 OP
Rare glimpse of a masterpiece Donkees Feb 2022 #1
'Cultural relic-inspired dances are staged as part of The Nation's Greatest Treasures' Donkees Feb 2022 #2

Donkees

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1. Rare glimpse of a masterpiece
Wed Feb 2, 2022, 08:47 AM
Feb 2022

2017-09-14


Part of A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, the lone surviving painting by Song Dynasty artist Wang Ximeng, is among dozens of works to be showcased at the upcoming grand exhibition A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains: Blue-green Landscape Paintings from across Chinese History at the Palace Museum in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]

"The blue-green paintings have relatively thick mineral pigments, and are thus difficult to preserve," says Palace Museum researcher Wang Zhongxu, curator of the exhibition.

"It is extremely rare to see a 900-year-old painting intact."

He says the 11-meter-long scroll painting is a record of people's lives and natural scenery at that time, and mixes realism with creative imagination.


Staff members from the Palace Museum arrange the Song Dynasty masterpiece for the exhibition. [Photo by Zhang Wei/China Daily]

"Song Dynasty paintings are renowned for their delicate details," he says. "And this work is an outstanding representative. It's the pinnacle of blue-and-green painting, not only for its technique but also its theme."

For the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, a huge digital version of this painting was projected onto the center of the stadium.

The painter, Wang Ximeng, who was born in 1096, was part of the imperial painting academy of the Song Dynasty. He was tutored by Emperor Huizong, a fine art guru, and handed in this painting at the age of 18.





https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/art/2017-09/14/content_31972486_3.htm

Donkees

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2. 'Cultural relic-inspired dances are staged as part of The Nation's Greatest Treasures'
Wed Feb 2, 2022, 08:49 AM
Feb 2022

Cultural relic-inspired dances are staged as part of The Nation's Greatest Treasures: Show Season, a spinoff of a popular variety show produced by China Central Television. Among them are The Legend of A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains (above)

http://epaper.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202111/18/WS61957902a31019b029ba1d99.html
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