literati

Examples of literati in the following topics:

• Japanese Literati Painting in the Edo Period

  • An important art trend during the Edo period was the bunjinga or Nanga School, a kind of literati painting highly influenced by China literati.
  • Chinese literati painting focused on expressing the rhythm of nature rather than the realistic depiction of it.
  • As a result, the bunjinga artists who aspired to the ideals and lifestyles of the Chinese literati were left with a rather incomplete view of Chinese literati ideas and art.
  • While the Chinese literati were academics aspiring to be painters, the Japanese literati were professionally trained painters aspiring to be academics and intellectuals.
  • Discuss literati painting in Edo Japan and its debt to China

• Chinese Literati Expressionism under the Ming Dynasty

  • Literati Expressionism in Chinese painting was produced by scholar-bureaucrats of the Southern School, rather than by professional painters.
  • The literati lifestyle and attitude, as well as the associated style of painting, can be said to go back to early periods of Chinese history.
  • Literati paintings are most commonly of landscapes, often of the shanshui ("mountain water") genre.
  • Calligraphic inscriptions, either of classical poems or ones composed by a contemporary literati (typically the painter or a friend), are also quite common.
  • Differentiate the literati Southern School of Chinese painting from its professional counterpart in the North

• Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints in the Edo Period

  • By 1800, ukiyo-e flourished alongside Rinpa and literati painting.
  • Ukiyo-e was closely linked to the bunjinga, or literati, style of painting that emerged during the same period.

• Kanō School Painting in the Edo Period

  • The Kanō School drew on the Chinese tradition of literati painting by scholar-bureaucrats, but the Kanō painters were firmly professional artists: they were very generously paid if successful and received formal workshop training in the family workshop (similar to European painters of the Renaissance or Baroque period).
  • Describe the defining characteristics of the Kano School during the Edo Period, and distinguish it from literati painting

• Painting under the Yuan Dynasty

  • The most notable of these was Huang Gongwang (1269–1354), whose cool and restrained landscapes were admired by contemporaries and by the Chinese literati painters of later centuries.
  • Huang Gongwang rejected the landscape conventions of his era's Academy but is regarded as one of the great literati painters.

• Individualist Painting under the Qing Dynasty

  • His paintings exemplify the internal contradictions and tensions of the literati or scholar-amateur artist, and they have been interpreted as an invective against art-historical canonization.

• Calligraphy during the Six Dynasties Period

  • The preface describes the event during that year's Spring Purification Festival in which 42 literati, including Xie An and Sun Chuo, were present at a gathering at the Orchid Pavilion near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, at which they composed poems, played music, and enjoyed wine.

• Painting under the Ming Dynasty

  • Often classified as Literati, scholars, or amateur painters (as opposed to professionals), members of the Wu School idealized the concepts of personalizing works and integrating the artists into the art.