https://notebook-7b2.pages.dev/tags/art/ Recent content in Art on Mandarin Notebook Hugo en Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:39:00 +0000 https://notebook-7b2.pages.dev/post/2026-06-12-explaining-the-background-image-blue-green-shan-shui/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:39:00 +0000 https://notebook-7b2.pages.dev/post/2026-06-12-explaining-the-background-image-blue-green-shan-shui/ <p>I discovered this very attractive blue and green style of landscape painting. There are quite a few examples that are still vibrant in colour, given that the pigments used were actually made from minerals. A thousand years later, the colours still vibrantly pinging off the page.</p> <blockquote> <p><em>The image here is a detail from Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (千里江山图) painted by <strong>Wang Ximeng (王希孟)</strong>. You can see an interactive version <a href="https://minghuaji.dpm.org.cn/paint/appreciate?id=b0a15b3767a5c12089ec45563741112b">here</a>.</em></p>