River View Canvas Print

River View is a little ink painting of a Chinese river scenery 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 China mountain and water painting. According to Fengshui build your house in an area, where the mountain is behind your home and the water in front of it. Famous example is the "Forbidden City" in Peking. The emperors created an artificial hill behind the city to follow this rule. In China the calligraphy always belongs to the painting. It’s like the signature from the artist. The bigger characters are always the title of the painting. The smaller calligraphy shows the name of the artist and sometimes where and when the painting was created. On the picture is written „shan shui - bai jie hua yu shang hai” what means “Mountain Water painting - painted by Bai Jie in Shanghai” Bai Jie is my Chinese name.