Travelers Amid Mountains And Streams

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Next art piece is the Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams. This work was made by Fan Kuan around the year 1000 and is made with ink on a long silk roll. In this paintings you can see Fan Kuan’s personal interpretation of how he viewed nature. In this painting, there is no degree of secularism or religion in its content, it is simply a man's interpretation of nature, right after a time which made him resort to being reclusive. Like many other Chinese poets and artists. Unlike many other landscape paintings, there is no particular viewpoint; it does not look like correct perspective because Fan Kuan did not intend for this painting to be an ideal painting but a representation of how he viewed nature. INastad of seeing man's representation of

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