Yangtze River in Autumn Canvas Print

Yangze River in Autumn - is a brush painting in traditional Chinese free style technique (shan shui) with ink on rice paper. Chinese landscape painting, in general, is the famous paintings art that take landscapes as themes, treats the natural mountains and rivers as major description objects. Chinese mountain and water painting (in Chinese called shan shui, shan = mountain, shui=water) forms its own artistic tradition and system. Through mountain and water paintings, people can taste both artistic conception and the artistic style of Chinese paintings well. For Chinese landscape painting it is unable to do without "water". "Water" is the soul of Chinese paintings. The lifelike depiction of various forms of water grace the whole painting when you appreciate one Chinas mountain and water painting. According to Fengshui the faraway mountains is symbolic of long stading and well established. The morning sun implies lucky strike, also means that the hard times already past and the good days has come. Trees on the left side painted for bringing wealth, trees on the right side painted for keeping off misfortune. If there is a pathlet on the left side of waterfall, it will lead the wealth to your home. Chinese brush mountains paintings are not simply depict natural views, but reveal the pursuit of spirit and the philosophy of life of painters. It also reflects the inner consciousness for self-cultivation of Chinese which called "Mountain is the model of virtue and water is the good example of character". And paintings of wooded mountain are mostly express the delight of living in mountain, or the inconceivable appeal of dreamlike landscape, or the detached feeling for living in peace. In China the calligraphy always belong to the painting. It’s like the signature from the artist. This one is without the original calligraphy!