Issue 3 – Curator; Giacomo Bruni

Lin Haizhong, other names include, ‘Master of the Rivers and Stream Pavilion’ 林泉阁主人, ‘Man who lies in the Red Mountain Clouds’ 卧霞山人, is currently a full time professor of Chinese Mountain and Water Painting in the department of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou 中国美术学院. In addition to being a highly accomplished and recognized artist, Haizhong also serves as Supervisor to both Masters and Doctoral students of the Academy. Lin Haizhong is deeply focused on fostering and passing down the authentic tradition of Chinese Painting. Further, he also searches to find new meaning in its use and development.  His work presents an expression of the ancient meeting contemporary consciousness. In addition, his paintings establish a realm that is both unadorned with ancient simplicity, quietness, caracterized by raw and spontaneous movement. His works also breathe an expression of the current day. There is an endless aesthetic joyfulness and boundless power to his works’ spiritual achievement.

Issue 3 – By; Giacomo Bruni

The development of Chinese mountain and water painting shanshui hua 山水画 naturally follows the historical and cultural evolution of China. The formation of the artistic style, genre, and language of the past dynasties of mountain and water painting was not accomplished overnight, it was inherited and developed gradually drawing on the artistic experience of predecessors and gradually forming through a long period of brush and ink practice. Every change has been inextricably linked with the predecessors, but also influences the future generations. It is an endless process. People expand in retrospect, repetitively review the old and learn the new, so the Chinese mountain and water painting is constantly enriched, developed and improved.

A brief study of its continuity and significance in Mountain and water painting (Part II)

Issue 2 – By; Claudio D. Lucchi