Liu Guandao or
Liu Kuan-tao (劉貫道 Liú Guàndào; 1258 1336), courtesy name
Zhong Xian (仲贤), was a Chinese court artist active during the
Yuan dynasty. A native of Zhongshan (now Dingxian), Hebei, much of his work is in a realist style, and in 1279 he rose to prominence with a well-received painting of
Kublai Khan's son
Zhenjin.
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Career
Liu Guandao was born around 1258 in Zhongshan (now Dingxian), Hebei. Excelling in realism, he was said to be a self-taught painter and worked as one of the "very few" court artists at the Yuan court. In 1279, Liu was praised for his painting of Emperor Kublai Khan's son Zhenjin and was promoted to "Commissioner of the Imperial Wardrobe Bureau"; a year later, he was commissioned by Kublai to produce a painting of Kublai on a hunting expedition in the Gobi Desert; the painting, Kublai Khan Hunting, features Kublai, Empress Chabi, and a few servants, amidst "a barren scene of loess ... and a few hills". One of Liu's more famous works, Kublai Khan Hunting is housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum writes of the painting, "the figures are meticulously rendered and the animals are all life-like in a naturalistic scene". Liu's depiction of Kublai Khan also confirms Marco Polo account of the ruler as an "aging and obese man".
A hand scroll titled Whiling Away the Summer was erroneously believed to be a Song-era work by Liu Songnian until 1935, when its owner Wu Hufan discovered "a tiny signature" belonging to Liu Guandao. Whiling Away the Summer is described as unorthodox, and not characteristic of typical Yuan artworks. In Whiling, Liu "developed comparable designs, playing repeated straight lines off of crisp angles and fluid curves." Liu Guandao also painted a number of landscapes in the style of Guo Xi. Snow Landscape is attributed to Liu but is dated 1349, which is after his death in 1336. Liu is described as an "eclectic who studied a variety of old styles and combined their best points". A profile of Liu Guandao by the New York art gallery Kaikodo hails his figure painting as "truly the brushwork of an immortal".
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劉貫道(? - ?),字
仲賢,中山(今河北定縣)人,
元朝畫家。其所畫道釋人物,宗法於晉
唐,山水宗
李成、
郭熙,花竹鳥獸亦能集諸家之長。其畫筆法凝練,堅實有力,造型準確,生動傳神,成為當時畫壇的高手。傳世作品有國立故宮博物院收藏的《
元世祖出獵圖》、《元世祖半身像》與《元世祖察必皇后半身像》,以及納爾遜藝術博物館收藏的《消夏圖》。
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作品
File:KhubilaiOnTheHunt.jpg|1280年所作《元世祖出獵圖》,縱182.9公分,橫104.1公分。
File:YuanEmperorAlbumKhubilaiPortrait.jpg|約1271至1294年所作《元世祖半身像》,縱59.4公分,橫47公分。
File:YuanEmpressAlbumChabi.jpg|約1271至1281年所作《元世祖察必皇后半身像》,縱61.5公分,橫48公分。
另有《如來法會》卷、《積雪圖》、《群仙獻壽圖》藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
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