mingsonjia:龚贤 - 金碧山水by Gong Xian (Qing dynasty)*There’s a special style in Chinese landscape paintin
mingsonjia:龚贤 - 金碧山水by Gong Xian (Qing dynasty)*There’s a special style in Chinese landscape painting called 青绿山水Qinglu shanshui which uses mineral dyes to complete the artwork. Those artworks have major green and blue colors. During Song Dynasty, artists and scholars added 泥金 (made of glue and powdered gold or other metals) to the dyeing materials. These landscape paintings are 金碧山水 Jinbi shanshui. -- source link