The Landscape Realm in Linquan Gaozhi

Abstract

Guo Xi was a famous landscape painter and painting theorist in the Northern Song Dynasty. His landscape painting work was called Linquan Gaozhi, which not only inherited the landscape spirits of literati paintings, summarized the skills of landscape paintings, but also opened a new era of landscape painting aesthetics. Hence, it guided the future landscape aesthetic culture and had high ideological and theoretical contributions. We could have a new understanding about the relationship between the landscape and society through reading this book. And on this basis, we were able to know the landscape realm well and realize the harmony of man and nature in the landscape paintings.