ARTPEONY

ArtPeony

ArtPeony is an independent publication about Chinese painting and calligraphy. Articles bring close looking together with museum records and named sources. AI-assisted articles are identified beside the text; individual contributors are credited by name.

Stories

Clearing after Rain over Streams and Mountains

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Landscape

How ink makes room for mist

In Wang Hui’s landscape of 1662, the spaces between the mountains do as much work as the mountains themselves.

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Flowers & birds

Two flowers, two ways of making a mark

Zhao Zhiqian turns the curved field of a fan into an encounter between color, outline and writing.

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Landscape

A small figure beneath an immense landscape

Chen Hongshou makes the distance between a person and a mountain feel larger than the space on the silk.

Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi

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Calligraphy

A line, a pause, a living rhythm

Zhao Mengfu’s scroll brings stories about Wang Xizhi into a rhythm of strokes, characters and open space.

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Flowers & birds

The quiet presence of a peony

In Hua Yan’s White Peony and Rocks, a pale flower and dark garden rocks invite two different kinds of attention.

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Landscape

A world within a landscape

In Qian Xuan’s landscape, a calligrapher watching geese becomes a way to explore the relationship between nature and art.