Wang Meng

Examples of Wang Meng in the following topics:

• Painting under the Yuan Dynasty

  • Wang Meng was a famous painter of the Yuan Dynasty, and one of his most famous works is the Forest Grotto.
  • Wang Meng and the great masters of the Yuan Dynasty exclusively painted landscapes, which they believed to be the visible key to the invisible reality.

• Orthodox Confucian Painting under the Qing Dynasty

  • The painting of the early years of the dynasty included such painters as the orthodox Six Masters, including the Four Wangs.
  • The Six Masters include the flower painter Yun Shouping, the landscape painter Wu Li, and the Four Wangs: Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi, and Wang Hui.
  • Wang Hui, Clearing Autum Sky over a Fishing Vilage, hanging scroll, ink and light colors on paper (1680)
  • Wang Hui and the three other Wangs dominated Orthodox art in China throughout the late Ming and early Qing periods.
  • Of the Four Wangs, Wang Hui is considered to be the best known today.

• Calligraphy during the Six Dynasties Period

  • One of these famous calligraphers was Wang Xizhi, who lived during the 4th century CE in the middle of the Jin Dynasty.
  • Wang Xizhi was traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy, and he is considered by many to be one of the most esteemed Chinese calligraphers of all time and a master of all forms of Chinese calligraphy, especially the running script.
  • The Lantingji Xu is a famous work of calligraphy by Wang Xizhi, composed in the year 353 CE.
  • Main text of a Tang Dynasty copy of Wang Xizhi's Lantingji Xu, by Feng Chengsu.
  • Throughout Chinese history, many copies were made of the Lantingji Xu, which described the beauty of the landscape around the Orchid Pavilion and the get-together of Wang Xizhi and his friends.

• Philosophy and Art of the Han Dynasty

  • It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent Wang Mang.
  • Philosophical works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) questioned whether human nature was innately good or evil and posed challenges to Dong's universal order.

• Painting and Other Forms of Art

  • Neoclassicism appears rather earlier in Germany than in France, with Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–79), the Danish painter Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754–98), and the sculptor Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850).

• Goya

  • He later moved to Madrid where he studied with another painter, Anton Raphael Mengs, who was popular with Spanish royalty.

• Painting during the Tang Dynasty

  • The great poet Wang Wei first created the brush and ink painting of shan-shui, literally "mountains and waters."

• Japanese Calligraphy in the Kamakura Period

  • For many years, the most esteemed calligrapher in Japan had been Wang Xizhi, a Chinese calligrapher in the 4th century; however, after the invention of Hiragana and Katakana, the Japanese unique syllabaries, a distinctive Japanese writing system developed, and calligraphers produced styles intrinsic to Japan.

• Modern Chinese Painting

  • One particular case of freehand style (xieyi hua) may be noted in the work of the child prodigy Wang Yani, born in 1975, who started painting at age 3 and has since considerably contributed to the exercise of the style in contemporary artwork.

• The Song Dynasty

  • Mahayana Buddhism influenced Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi through its concept of ethical universalism, while Buddhist metaphysics had a deep impact upon the pre-Neo-Confucian doctrine of Cheng Yi.