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Download Mountain China Landscape Painting Pics. See more ideas about chinese landscape painting, chinese landscape, chinese painting. Fan kuan painted a 206.3 cm (about 6.75 feet) landscape known as the travelers among mountains and streams, which is considered one of the finest monumental landscape paintings by a chinese artist.

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Rounded mountains are a common theme in chinese art. The chinese word for landscape consists of two characters which represent mountains and rivers. Fan kuan based the painting on the daoist principle of becoming one with nature.

In summer mountains, travelers make their way toward a temple retreat.

Mountains, bare trees and water are the usual themes of these landscape paintings. Before the tenth century, the main subject was usually the human figure. It also became a model for later chinese painters. In wooded mountains at dusk the artist depicts himself as a wandering pilgrim seated beneath a natural rock bridge: