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Zou, Yigui

(Wuxi, Jiangsu 1686-1722) : Maler, Kalligraph bei Kaiser Qianlong

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Art : Painting and Calligraphy / Index of Names : China

Chronology Entries (2)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1740 Zou, Yigui. Xiao shan hua pu.
Er schreibt : "The Westerners are skilled in geometry, and consequently there is not the slightest mistake in their way of rendering light and shade and distance. In their paintings all the figures, buildings, and trees cast shadows, and their brush and colours are entirely different from those of Chinese painters. Their views (scenery) stretch out from broad (in the foreground) to narrow (in the background) and are defined (mathematically measured). When they paint houses on a wall people are tempted to walk into them. Students of painting may well take over one or two points from them to make their own paintings more attractive to the eye. But these painters have no brush-manner whatsoever ; although they possesss skill, they are simply artisans and cannot consequently be classified as painters."
  • Document: Sullivan, Michael. The meeting of Eastern and Western art from the sixteenth century to the present day. (London : Thames and Hudson, 1973). [Rev. and expanded ed. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1989)].
    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PMFwC1gP0BkC.
    [Enthält]     :
    Some important dates in Far Eastern history since 1500.
    Japan: the first phase, c.1550-1850.
    China and European art, 1600-1800.
    Europe and Chinese art, 1600-1800.
    Japan: from the Meiji restoration of 1869 to the present day.
    The revolution in Chinese art.
    Europe and America: from 1850 to the present day.
    Some reflections on the East-West dialogue. S. 80. (Sul6, Publication)
  • Document: Internet (Wichtige Adressen werden separat aufgeführt) (Int, Web)
2 1753 ca. Zou, Yigui. Xiao shan hua pu [ID D39184].
Zou schreibt : "The Westerners are skilled in geometry. Thus when they depict light and shade and distance they are precise to the last detail. All the human figures, houses and trees in their paintings have shadows trailing behind them. The colours and brushes they use are completely different from those used in China. When they paint a scene, the perspective is presented as from broad to narrow, calculated mathematically. Their mural paintings depicted palaces look so real that one is almost tempted to walk into them."
  • Document: Kao, Mayching. European influences on Chinese art, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. In : China and Europe : images and influences in sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Ed. by Thomas H.C. Lee. (Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, 1991). (Kao2, Publication)

Bibliography (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1753 ca. Zou, Yigui. Xiao shan hua pu. (China : [s.n.], ca. 1753). = (Shanghai : Shanghai Chen shi, 1823).
小山畫譜 		Publication / ZouY1
2 1969 Tsou, I-kuei. Lob der Naturtreue : das Hsiao-shan hua-p'u des Tsou I-kuei (1686-1772). Einleitung und Übersetzung von Günther Debon, Chou Chün-shan. (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1969). [Zhou, Junshan ; Zou, Yigui. Xiao shan hua pu.] Publication / Debo-Zou,1