Early Spring, Guo Xi
Guo Xi·Early Spring·1072·Hanging scroll, ink and light colour on silk·National Palace Museum, Taipei↓

Guo Xi Chinese, c. 1020 – c. 1090

Early Spring, 1072

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A mountain rises like a living thing out of spring mist, its forms twisting upward in a single surge of energy. Tiny travellers, fishermen and a temple are tucked into the folds, so the eye moves through the scroll the way a walker moves through hills.

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Find the three distances Guo Xi described: look up at the peak, into the valley on the right, and across to the level waters on the left.

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