Gazing into the Past: Huang Gongwang by James Cahill 3
Channel: Randy Chatterjee
Date: 2015-06-09

The first lecture in this new series was centered on a great painting of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng's Dwelling in the Qingbian Mts., the second to a recent artist, Cheng Shifa. For this third, we return to the Yuan dynasty to consider the works of another of the so-called Four Great Masters of Yuan landscape painting, Huang Gongwang. I had meant originally to concentrate again on a single work of his, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mts" of 1347-1350; but when I assembled the images and looked at them, it became apparent that a lecture on most of the surviving works of this great artist would be more interesting and valuable. So that's what I'm attempting in the lecture that follows.
                                             ----- James Cahill