Guided Writing.ppt

Listing items Structuring adverbs Structuring adverbs Structuring adverbs Abbreviations Abbreviations Tips 1 If you are visiting the Chinese Painting Gallery in the Shanghai Museum, you may find that the sheer number of paintings on view is overwhelming. Perhaps you have just a limited amount of time and are wondering what to try to take in on a brief tour. One solution is to take a  quick look round to get a general  impression and then spend more time  with just a few of the great works on  display. In that case, here are my  recommendations for five works. 2 First, from the Tang and Song dynasties, look carefully at The Eight Noble Monks (《八高僧故事图》) by Liang Kai (梁楷) to notice the detailed portrayal of the monks in their tasks of sweeping and getting water from the river, and so on, in the landscape. 3 Then, moving on to the Yuan dynasty, look at another detailed painting, a vertical one this time, Retreat in the Qing Bian Mountain (《青卞隐居图》) by Wang Meng (王蒙), where you can trace the running streams, find the houses far on the left and admire how the hills make cloud-forms at the top. 4 Now, third, move to the Ming dynasty for another vertical landscape, Dense Green Covering the Spring Mountains (《春山积翠图》) by Dai Jin (戴进); this is a much simpler landscape with a different feeling for space and at the bottom the two small figures walking uphill and the line of the trees take our gaze upwards to the misty clouds. 5 Next our fourth choice is Bamboo and Rock (《竹石图》) by Zheng Banqiao (郑板桥) painted in the Qing dynasty. This looks startlingly modern with an interesting contrast between the bamboo stems and leaves, and the almost geological impression of the rocks. 6 Finally, in the modern period, move to Willow Pond in Spring Rain (《柳塘春雨图》) by Gao Qifeng (高奇峰) (1889–1933), which has a contemporary technique but a traditional feel