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This exam consists of 4 questions which are divided into background research que

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This exam consists of 4 questions which are divided into background research questions to prepare you for answering the main essay question. You need to submit both portions of each question for credit.
The exam is designed to be answered over the course of a week, not in one sitting or in a few hours. You need to look up the background information completely and accurately and consider it. I would suggest outlining each question when you download the exam when it is posted. Then I suggest going through the lectures and finding the appropriate material and rough answering the background questions. When you have completed this for the entire exam, then you can start answering the essay questions. These questions are both factually centered and also what you personally think of the paintings. The exam will be graded on your engagement with the material – it is about looking and thinking carefully/analyzing, and then comparing. It is not an exercise in just looking up answers and it is not an exercise in memorization. It is an exercise in looking and thinking about each work that is listed.
I will grade strictly on the factual information in the background sections of each question. For the essay question itself, I am not looking for a specific answer, but rather a range of answers and this will vary from person to person. Take you time – answering just one question a day will still give you two days to review the entire exam.
All of the answers to the background questions will be found in the pdf files of the lectures posted to canvas and also covered in the zoom recordings. You may use any information in my posted pdf lectures without citing a source. You may not google the answers or inquire for the answers from a Chatbot as a few people did on the last exam. The answers that will be returned via a Google search or Chatbot generated answer will not match those in the posted lectures. Because this is an exercise in looking and analyzing in your own words, anything from outside of the posted lectures or textbook will not be permitted and that question will be marked wrong.
4 questions – 25 points each.

Question #1 Background Concepts
Background information to answer completely and accurately first and place before your essay answer when submitting the exam:
a. What are Chinese landscape paintings referred to in Chinese and literally in English?
b. What primal force did the Chinese believe to animate all of nature? Which religion was this associated with? Discuss the metaphor of changes of light as the sun moves across a steep mountain valley from morning through evening (You will find a YouTube Video documenting this in the lecture). You need to be able to understand and explain this to answer the following question.
Essay question #1
Using Guo Xi’s painting of Early Spring, discuss why the Chinese name for landscape painting is appropriate and how it not only embodies the Chinese term for landscape painting in its subject and composition, but also the primal force that you explained above. Important: After answering the above points, what you feel about the conceptual reading of Guo Xi’s Early Spring?
Question #2 Tang through Five Dynasties – Concepts and Stylistic Analysis
Background information to answer completely and accurately first and place before your essay answer when submitting the exam:
a. Looking at the painting of Xuanzong’s Flight to Shu’s composition: Explain why it Is this primarily a narrative painting that you must read section by section and not a unified landscape painting that you can appreciate from a distance as a whole. How does the narrative progress? Are there lots of descriiptive details and interesting content for the view to discover? Point out one.
b. Looking at the painting style of Xuanzong’s Flight to Shu for the how the artist defines the landscape forms: How does he draw the outlines of the rocks and mountains? What is the shape and consistency of his brush strokes? Are they all essentially the same, including the interior strokes? How does he model the rocks and the mountains? What colors does he use?
c. Looking at Li Cheng’s A Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks composition: Explain why it is a unified landscape painting meant to be appreciated as a whole from a distance and not a narrative painting. What is the basic composition of the painting – is it symmetrical and what is the difference in size between the foreground and the background mountains?
d. What types of brush strokes does Li Cheng use to outline his mountains and rocks – how do they compare with the outline strokes in the Flight to Shu? How does he model the landscape forms – how is his technique different from that in the Fight to Shu?
Essay question #2
Using The Flight to Shu and A Solitary Temple Amid Mountain Peaks discuss the differences between the two paintings in terms of both composition and technique. What has changed? Important: After answering the above points, which painting do you like best and explain why?

Question #3 Northern Song and Southern Song – Concepts and Stylistic Analysis
Background information to answer completely and accurately first and place before your essay answer when submitting the exam:
a. Using Fan Kuan’s Travelers in Mountains and Streams discuss the following: What is the subject of this painting? What is the relationship between man and nature? What is the basic composition of the painting? Does he use relatively short, small brushstrokes to texture the mountains and rocks? What do you think the basic purpose behind the creation of this painting is?
b. Using Li Tang’s Whispering Pines in the Mountains discuss the following: Is the basic composition the same as that of Fan Kuan? Is there any evidence of Man in the painting? What type of new brush stroke does he use to model the landscape forms?
c. Using Ma Yuan’s Mountain Path in the Spring discuss the following: What was this painting created for? What is the subject of this painting? How is this painting composed? Is the brushwork minimal, precise, and professionally executed? Would the painting have the same effect if it was painted using the brushstrokes of Li Cheng or Fan Kuan?
Essay question #3
Using the three above paintings discuss the basic differences in subject, purpose and technical execution between the painting by Fan Kuan and the painting by Ma Yuan. Important: Which of these two paintings do you like better? Explain why.
Question #4 The Yuan and Chao Meng Fu
Background information to answer completely and accurately first and place before your essay answer when submitting the exam:
1. Who was Chao Meng Fu? Was he criticized for serving the Mongol invaders? Was he a Chinese patriot? – explain briefly.
2. What is the subject matter of Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains? Why was it painted? What is the composition? How does the composition differ from that of Fan Kuan and Ma Yuan? How does he follow or violate the rules of perspective in this painting? Was the use of color popular and widely used by literati painters during the Song and Yuan dynasties? What type of color does Chao Meng fu use in this painting and why? What type of brushwork does he use? (Look at Dong Yuan’s Xiao and Xiang Rivers scroll in the 5 dynasties lecture). Was this type of brushwork popular during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasty prior to Chao Meng Fu? Explain why. Compared to contemporary paintings, would the initial observation of a connoisseur have been an amateur work, or a work painted to the highest literati standards?
Essay question #4
Using Chao Meng Fu’s life and position and the formal analysis of the painting based on the stylistic points you have answered above, explain whether or not you feel that Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains is a subtle political statement or not. Explain completely and accurately based on your answers above.
(Please answer with professional details this is my exam to graduate) you can find the answers to question 1
Qa: slide 88 lec Tang dynasty & five dynasties landscape painting
Qb: slide 93 lec Tang dynasty & five dynasties landscape painting
Essay question: slides 16-18 Lec N&S_SongYuan)
I have attached all the lectures and slides needed, don’t use anything from google or any outside sources, it’s an exam don’t use anything it will make me fail

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