A. Diagram Demonstrating Conventions for Depicting Leaves in Chinese Paintings.
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4. Detail from the Lower Right Portion of the Mountain Forming the Third Illustration to the Admonitions Scroll, Here Dated to the Tenth or Early Eleventh Century. Chinese Handscroll. (British Museum.)
Plate II. B-Landscape. By Shen Chou (1427 1509). Dated 1467. Ink and Light Colours on Paper. Height, 194 cm. (Palace Museum, Peking) Greater Crowding on the Surface, and Greater Variety of Ink Tones. Less Emphasis Is Laid on the Calligraphic Qualities. More Picturesque Character. Chinese Art in the Light of Comparative Study-II.
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Plate I. A-Part of the Scroll After ku K'ai-Chi (Second Half of the Fourth Century A. D.). Ink and Colours on Silk. Height, 24.8 c. m. (British Museum) No Attempt at Proportion in Scenery and Figure. Chinese Art in the Light of Comparative Study-II.
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Plate I. B-Part of the Wang Ch'uan Scroll. Copy after Wang Wei (Eighth Century). Colours on Silk. Height, 42 cm. (British Museum). Attempt to Create a Pure Landscape. But It Is More the Description of a Particular Locality (The Painter's Estate) Than a Landscape of Spatial and Atmospheric Unity. Chinese Art in the Light of Comparative Study-II.
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Plate I. C-Scenes from the Buddha Legend. Eighth Century. Colours on Silk. Height, 59.7 cm. From Tun Huang. (Stein Collection, British Museum) Figures and Scenery Show More Natural Proportions Than Those in A, and a Certain Spatial Illusion. But the Scenery Is Built up Rather Like Stage Scenery. Chinese Art in the Light of Comparative Study-II.
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Plate II. A-Landscape. In the Style of Ma Yuan (About 1200). Ink and Light Colours on Silk. Height, 150 cm. (Palace Museum, Peking) No Portrayal of a Particular Locality, But Unity of Vision, Space and Atmosphere. Reflection of the Sublime Beauty of Nature. Chinese Art in the Light of Comparative Study-II.