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Villambrosa, Arianna (2019)

The Landscape of Contemporary Chinese Artists: An Evidence of the Transformation of Space and Time

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

Landscape occupies a prominent place in the history of Chinese painting and lives on in contemporary art, reflecting the changes which China and more generally the world have undergone in the last few decades. On the wake of their ancestors, contemporary artists still turn to the subject of landscape to express themselves, although this style seems now freed from the stricter boundaries of pre-modern landscape painting. The research has the aim to investigate Chinese contemporary artists’ perception of the changing surroundings through the examination of a selection of artworks that will highlight the role of the landscape as an effective means to convey a wide array of feelings.

Landscape painting

China

Contemporary art

Shanshui hua

Nostalgia

Dystopia

Legacy

Author

Villambrosa, Arianna

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

History, Arts and Culture of Asia

Supervisors

Lin, Fan

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en