| Chinese calligraphy on the fan cover was firstly
recorded on the story of Wang Xizhi wrote calligraphy on
some of the lady's fan. In the history, Wang Xizhi painted
mini figures on fan, and "painting cow for Huanwen"
of his son Wang Xianzhi. With the rapid development of the
painting art, especially all-time improvement of the landscape
and flower and bird based on late Tang and Five Dynasty,
the literator and painting in Song dynasty were more and
more closely, and formed the peak period of painting. Meanwhile,
the emperor was extremely attention to the cover painting.
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The works of "loquat
and birds" made by Emperor Zhaoji is more vivid. The
landscape is involved thousands of kilometer with the splendid
country and grand vigor. This works is panorama, showing
the flexuous mountains and dim cloud by the exquisite meaning.
In South Song, it was transferred to the part picture,
which could make the composition and views even simple
and evident. As one of a form of painting, fan cover is
inherited and developed, and now it has already broken
away its practice while figured the artistic fan with painting
works. Few treasures were collected by those emperors,
officials and literators. This kind of painting has been
well kept during Yuan dynasty, such as Xiayong "Yueyang
pavilion" housed in Palace Museum , Zhaoyuan "streets
and stones" etc. During the course of Ming and Qing
dynasties, many artists was good at the painting on fan,
and up to now, it is still popular among modern artists. |
