Nanga School Paintings

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Nanga School Paintings

• By Katie and Nick

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Nanga Masters

• Nanga masters have variations of literati
  paintings, Japanese aesthetics, and unique
  brushworks while they accumulated other talents
  such as calligraphy and poetry.

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How it started

• The Nanga School started by other painters taking
  ideas from literati painters and being grouped
  together as the Nanga School.

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Uragami Gyokudo

• Uragami Gyokudo became known for his painting,
  Geese Aslant in the High Wind, in 1817 which
  represented a large natural source destroying the
  nature around it.

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Gyokudo Artwork

• Gyokudo art was considered to strong in his own
  time because of his layers of calligraphic
  brushwork, but in the modern century he has come
  to be appreciated and considered a great artist.

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The Nanga School

• The Nanga school was not a school in the sense of
  a professional workshop, rather it took its name
  from the southern school of amateur artists
  described by the Chinese literati theorist Dong
  Qichang.