Shan shui (Chinese: 山 水; pinyin: shān shuǐ; lit. 'mountain-water'; pronounced [ʂán ʂwèɪ]) refers to a style of traditional Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and waterfalls are common subjects of shan shui paintings.

Shan shui (Traditional Chinese: 山水畫) refers to a style of Chinese painting that involves the painting of scenery or natural landscapes with brush and ink. The name literally translates to "mountain-water-picture." Mountains, rivers, and often waterfalls are prominent in this art form.

shanshui projects is a network of scholars and artists devoted to studying, practicing, and promulgating theoretical and practical knowledge concerning Shanshui 山水 (Mountain and Water, or Landscape) painting.

2023年11月2日 · 山水画 (Shan Shui) is a style of traditional Chinese painting that depicts natural landscapes using brush and ink. The term literally means "mountain water" and reflects the Chinese aesthetic of harmony between humans and nature.

The term for landscape painting in East Asia translates as “mountains and water” (Chinese: shanshui; Korean: sansu; Japanese: sansui) —fitting for a genre that always features these two elements, often in the form of a grand mountain peak and a waterfall or rolling hills along a river.

Shanshui (‘mountain and water’) is a cultural legacy integral to Chinese philosophical thinking and poetic imagination, and motivates a millennium-old tradition of ink painting across East Asia. Although commonly translated as ‘landscape’, shanshui can take us far beyond observable reality.

2020年1月15日 · « Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains » (富春山居圖), Gu Xiaogang’s beautiful first feature film, which premiered at Cannes International Critics’ Week in 2019, is first and foremost the title of a Chinese handscroll masterpiece in the « shanshui » (山水) genre, which describes a traditional form of Chinese landscape painting 1 ...