Fine Arts 61
Spring 2004
Samuel C. Morse
108 Fayerweather Hall
542-2282
scmorse@amherst.edu
Approaches to Chinese Painting
The Course
A survey of the Chinese pictorial tradition with particular emphasis on the period from
the Northern Song to the Qing dynasties focusing in particular on the development of
the landscape idiom, but considering figure painting, bird and flower painting and the
narrative tradition as well. The course will explore the differences between Western
methodological approaches to Chinese painting and the theories of painting developed
by the Chinese themselves. To facilitate this end the lectures have been divided into
two types: some that will broadly survey the history of Chinese painting and others that
will be devoted to analysis of specific artists and methodological issues.
The class will meet twice a week, (T/TH) at 10:00, in Fayerweather 113. The course
assumes some familiarity with either the history or the art of China. If you have no prior
experience with the history of Chinese art, then it is recommended that you read
Michael Sullivan's The Arts of China during the first two weeks of the semester in order
to gain an understanding of the basic issues of Chinese history.
The course is designed to guarantee a maximum of class participation. There will be a
discussion topics assigned for many classes and four sessions devoted entirely to inclass projects. We will try to arrange at least one field trip to look at paintings in the
collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, or another public collection.
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Books
The following text has been ordered from the Jeffery Amherst Bookshop on South
Pleasant Street:
Barnhart, Richard, et. al, ed. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting.
A selection of readings (indicated by COPY-M) is included in a multilith that can be
purchased at Collective Copies, also on South Pleasant Street. All the other readings
on the syllabus can be found on reserve in Frost Library.
Requirements
There will be two required looking assignments not to exceed four typewritten pages
(each 10%) due Mar. 7 and Apr. 18; four in-class projects (each 10%) Feb. 6, Mar. 2,
Mar. 30 and Apr. 22, and a final research paper of 15 pages (40%) due the last day of
classes.
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Class Schedule
1) Jan. 26
Introduction: Landscape East and West
Early Chinese Landscape Painting
2) Jan. 28
Birth of Landscape Painting and Gu Kaizhi
3) Feb. 3
Landscape Painting from the Six Dynasties to the Tang
4) Feb. 6
DISCUSSION SECTION: Calligraphy and Chinese Theories of Painting
The Painting of the Song Dynasty
5) Feb. 10
Northern Sung Landscape Painting
6) Feb. 12
Guo Xi
7) Feb. 17
Li Tang
8) Feb. 19
Northern Sung Narrative Painting
9) Feb. 24 Emperor Huizong and the Southern Song Academy
10) Feb. 26 Ma Yuan and Xa Gui
11) Mar. 2 DISCUSSION SECTION: Formats of Chinese Painting
The Painting of the Yuan
12) Mar. 4 Qian Xuan and Zhao Mengfu
13) Mar. 9 Two of the Four Great Masters
14) Mar. 11
Two More of the Four Great Masters
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The Painting of the Ming
15) Mar. 23 Early Ming Painting
16) Mar. 25 Mid-Ming Painting
17) Mar. 30 DISCUSSION SECTION: “Style” and Chinese Painting
18) Apr. 1
The Wu School: Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming
19) Apr. 6
The Zhe School: Dai Jin
20) Apr. 8
Late Ming Painting
21) Apr. 13
Dong Qichang
The Painting of the Qing
22) Apr. 15
The Early Qing: The Orthodox and the Heterodox
23) Apr. 20
Three of the Four Wangs
24) Apr. 22
DISCUSSION SECTION: Sale of Chinese Paintings
25) Apr. 27
Gong Xian and Hongjen
26) Apr. 29
Shitao and Wang Yuanqii
27) May 2 Painting of the Late Qing
28) May 6 Chinese Painting in the 20th Century
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