Wang Gai
Chinese, active c. 1677–1705
Wang Gai was a painter active in Nanjing in the late seventeenth century, remembered above all as the principal compiler of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. Its first part, published in 1679, set out the forms of rocks, trees and other landscape elements and the brush methods of earlier masters in woodblock illustrations, and the manual became a standard primer for painters in China and Japan for centuries.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1677
- Mostly
- Painting
- Movement
- Chinese paintingInk and colour on silk and paper, from imperial courts to scholars' retreats.
- Courtesy of
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
