Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Southern School sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Southern School (Ming & Qing Dynasties), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Shanshui; it runs alongside three parallel movements, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Northern landscape style, Qinglü shanshui and the Zhe school.
The Southern School (Chinese: 南宗画; pinyin: nán zōng huà) of Chinese painting, often called literati painting (文人画; wén rén huà), is a term used to denote art and artists which stand in opposition to the formal Northern School (北宗画; běi zōng huà) of painting. The distinction is not geographic, but relates to the style and contents of the works, and to some extent to the position of the artist. Typically, where professional, formal painters were classified as Northern School, scholar-bureaucrats who had either retired from the professional world or who were never a part of it constituted the Southern School. Read more ↗
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