Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains [SEP] creator
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains () is one of the few surviving works by painter Huang Gongwang (1269–1354) and it is considered to be among his greatest works. Painted between 1348 and 1350, the Chinese landscape painting was burnt into two pieces in 1650. Today, one piece is kept in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, while the other piece is kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The entire painting combined would measure 691.3 cm in length.
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, the Director of Hunan Shaping Xiang Embroidery Museum, after two years planning invited the Chinese Crafts and Artisan Masters Aiyun Liu, Yan Shen, Yan Yang, Qiaoyun Chen, Min Yang, Ying Luo and over 30 other masters to recreate "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" as a tapestry. Over five months, the embroidery was finished according to its original size. The work is high and long, and uses threads of different shades of ink painting, in order to achieve "sub-colored ink" artistic effect.