The Peach Blossom Spring - Wikipedia
WEBThe Peach-Blossom Spring, painted by Gu Fuzhen, 1706. The expression shìwaì taóyuán (世外桃源), lit. "the Peach Spring beyond this world") has become a popular four-character idiom (chengyu), meaning an unexpectedly fantastic place off the beaten path, usually an unspoiled wilderness of great beauty.
Peach Blossom Spring | China - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEB"Peach Blossom Spring," as first told by the poet Tao Qian (365–427), is the tale of a fisherman who, having followed a stream lined with blossoming peach trees, stumbles upon an idyllic community that for generations has been …
Peach Blossom Spring - Saint Louis Art Museum
WEBPeach Blossom Spring. The delicate pink flowers of peach trees in bloom may be seen throughout this painting, providing a counterpoint to the blue-and-green mountain landscape. In traditional Chinese culture, peaches represent immortality and by extension, one or more groves of peach trees can symbolize the mythical realm of immortality. The ...
The Peach Blossom Spring - Google Arts & Culture
WEBThe Peach Blossom Spring. In the long calligraphic verse written on this painting, Wen Jia scrutinizes historical tragedies, advocating for the idealism in The Peach Blossom Spring by...
Peach Blossom Spring – China Online Museum
WEBJan 9, 2016 · Peach Blossom Spring. The Peach Blossom Spring was a fable written by Tao Yuanming (陶淵明) in 421 about a chance discovery of an ethereal utopia where the people led an ideal existence in harmony with nature, …
Peach Blossom Spring: Gardens and Flowers in Chinese Painting
WEBPeach Blossom Spring: Gardens and Flowers in Chinese Painting. Barnhart, Richard M. 1983. 144 pages. 80 illustrations. 9 x 12 in. This title is out of print. Find in a library. Read online.
Peach Blossom Spring Utopia - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBOn a high cliff, a trio of men relax and read. Throughout, the artist employs an age-old pictorial vocabulary to suggest the paradisiacal nature of the locale, the legendary Peach Blossom Spring of ancient Chinese lore.
Peach Blossom Spring in the Manner of Zhao Danian
WEBPeach Blossom Spring in the Manner of Zhao Danian. In Tao Yuanming ’s story The Peach Blossom Spring, a fisherman sails up a spring and comes upon a grove of blossoming peach trees....
The Peach Blossom Spring – Works – Asian Art Museum
WEBThe Peach Blossom Spring. Artist Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494-1552) Date approx. 1500-1600. ... Object number B79D5.g. Department Chinese Art. Classifications Painting. On View. On view. Location. Markings Qiu Ying. Discover More Related Peach Blossom Spring in the Manner of Zhao Danian. Qiu Ying. approx. 1700-1800. The …
The Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源圖 - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBBlossoming peach trees, symbolic of immortality, conceal the entrance to their secluded paradise. In depicting this mythic tale, many artists utilized a traditional palette of finely ground mineral pigments-azurite blue and malachite green- to evoke this jewel-like land.