What are the basic characteristics of landscape painting school in Yuan Dynasty?

The landscape painting school in Yuan Dynasty is a portrayal of the change of scholar-bureaucrat mentality to the frustration and pain of literati. Therefore, it pays more attention to subjective interest and pen and ink style, which is vast, rich and colorful, simple and simple, or endless.

The Yuan Dynasty landscape painting school pushed the beauty of pen and ink lines to the extreme, and they emphasized that painting pen and ink can have relatively independent beauty independent of scenery. Moreover, the combination of calligraphy and painting emphasizes the unique artistic conception of brushwork, ink painting and interest, and the interesting momentum, spatial tension and time composition conveyed by it. It became the fundamental feature of the landscape in the Yuan Dynasty.

Yuan Sijia played a decisive role in landscape painting. All four of them are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and they are good at ink and wash landscapes and painting on bamboo stones, which is a typical literati painting style. They lived in social unrest at the end of Yuan Dynasty.

Although everyone's social status and circumstances are different, their disappointments are similar, and they are all influenced by Zhao Mengfu in art. Through their exploration and efforts, China's landscape painting has reached a peak in pen and ink skills, which has a great influence on later paintings, especially the "Nanzong" school.

Yuan Sijia's landscape painting creation practice and theory represented the mainstream of landscape painting development at that time, which had a great influence on the landscape painting school in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Their landscape paintings represent a peak in the history of China's landscape paintings.