Dong Yuan

Dong Yuan was a 10th-century Chinese painter active in Nanjing during the Southern Tang court. He is considered a founder of the southern school of landscape painting and was one of the era's most esteemed artists.1

Dong Yuan's style, exemplified in his work "Mansions in the Mountains," featured innovative techniques like crosshatching. His landscapes, characterized by broad, impressionistic brushstrokes, dotted accents, and wet ink washes, depicted the rounded hills and moist atmosphere of the Jiangnan region. This approach contrasted with the more dramatic northern style, establishing two distinct traditions in Chinese landscape painting that influenced subsequent centuries.12