Lecture 10B: Bird-and-Flower Painting: Emperor Huizong and After

Watch in HD1080p: Beginning with a long consideration of Cui Bo’s “Hare and Magpies“ of 1061, this lecture continues by looking at the bird paintings ascribed to Emperor Huizong and offering a new proposal for how these were made. It goes on to show and discuss bird-and-flower works by Southern Song Academy masters, especially Ma Yuan and his son Ma Lin. Continuing with a handscroll of ink-monochrome images by a late Song literatus-artist, it ends with a miscellany of album-leaf paintings in the Academy styles.