Landscape After Huang Gongwang, 1752, Wang Yu, Chinese, active 1710-1750, 107 1/16 x 50 3/16 in. ( x cm)141 x 62 3/4 in. ( x cm) (mount), Ink and color on paper, China, 18th century, This monumental composition pays tribute to the famous Yuan dynasty scholar-painter Huang Gongwang (1269–1354). It is an attempt to combine two of Huang’s preferred compositional methods in one landscape. One of them is pingyuan, or 'level-distance' perspective, defined as looking from a place in the foreground into the far distance across a flat landscape. The other is gaoyuan

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