This wall scroll is for lovers of landscape: a mountain-and-water landscape, painted in a relaxed classical style. The landscape has always been a favorite subject, and you can see why — it carries the whole scroll. Study it a while and pagoda, sunset and lake emerge from the background, each one carefully observed.
The line work is lively and varied, the washes laid down with assurance — brushwork without a moment's doubt. The pavilion is the scholar's retreat — a place for wine, poetry and friends, in the old visual language of Chinese painting. Stand back and the whole holds together; step close and pagoda rewards the visit. It rewards an eye-level spot: quietly magnetic, never overpowering. Few subjects in Chinese art have been painted as often, or as lovingly, as this one.
Collectors of landscape silk wall art will find this one easy to live with. Know someone fond of Chinese brush painting? This is a housewarming gift with real thought behind it. It is a fine example of pagoda and sunset Chinese painting, the kind of piece that grows on you.
