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Traveling Through Brush and Ink

This animated film is based on four Chinese painting masterpieces in the National Palace Museum's collection from masters who worked during various dynasties, including the Tang and the Song dynasties. The film explores Chinese landscape painting's capacity to draw a viewer into the painting and, t

Traveling Through Brush and Ink: "The Cold Food Observance"

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Provider National Palace Museum

Su Shi, also known as Dongpo, was a famous artist and politician during the Northern Song dynasty. While banished to Huangzhou after being accused of slander, he produced some of his best writing, including "Odes of the Red Cliff" and "The Cold Food Observance." His style, combined with a colophon written on this latter work with flowing strokes by his contemporary and good friend, Huang Tingjian, makes "The Cold Food Observance" a unique treasure graced by two Northern Song masters.

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