Landscape painting scroll in Beijing 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

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Chinese painting scroll A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains 千里江山圖 represented in Olympics Opening Ceremony. Wang Ximeng (c.1096-c.1119), Song Dynasty artist, a teenage prodigy who painted this Thousand Miles of Landscape at age 18, a 51.5 x 1191.5 cm scroll, now kept in Palace Museum, Beijing. A masterpiece of Chinese Cavalier Perspectives, also called Multi-Point Perspectives, or Multi-Vanishing Point Perspectives are used in long scrolls of landscape painting.

王希孟 《千里江山圖》絹本 青綠設色 51.5 x 1191.5 公分 北京故宮博物院藏
王希孟為徽宗時畫院學生，宋人牧仲有《論畫詩》云："宣和供奉王希孟，天下親傳筆法精，
進得一圖身便死，空教斷腸太師京。" "天下親傳"指得是王希孟曾得宋徽宗親授筆法。而
"太師京"指得是太師蔡京，《千里江山圖》畫成后，是贈給當時的太師蔡京的，所以蔡京在此圖后面題了跋。根据題跋，王希孟死時才二十余歲，他畫這幅畫的時候才只有十八歲。­畫中江山千里，峰巒起伏，煙波浩蕩，既雄偉壯觀，又絢麗輝煌，光彩奪目。其構圖也交替運用了平遠、深遠、高遠的透視法則，極盡視角變化。

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[cristobelle56]

Thank for sharing. I watched the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on dvd and was 'blown away" by all the performances especially the painted scroll, Best

[artvirtue]

@cristobelle56 When I watched on TV, I was so overwhelmed by

the richness and depths of Chinese culture.

Thank you.

[beckycelebration]

Thank You! This was a beautiful preview to the artistry of the opening ceremony at 3:23

[artvirtue]

Thank you.

[JasminRose68]

When I was in the Beijing Olympics and saw this huge scroll, I felt the joy of Chinese arts.

[artvirtue]

Thanks for comment.

[artvirtue]

They say Wang Ximeng would not be famous and probably would be forgotten if the Emperor did not promote his painting. This is probably the only work he left us today.

[CasioExilimMan]

Such a rare genius!

[artvirtue]

Wang Ximeng was a child prodigy who received painting instructions from the Emperor of Sung dynasty.

[tutusgram]

both of these works of art are beyond awesome.  Thank you.