Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

— a shrine, perpetually under construction, as all great works are —

In the last years of his life, an old man named Huang Gongwang walked the banks of the Fuchun River with a brush and a roll of paper and made the painting the Yuan dynasty is still remembered for. This shrine is a small, plain page for a very large obsession: one seven-metre scroll, the fire that nearly ate it, and the fool who painted it.

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Start with the life of the man who took up painting seriously at fifty, wander into the scroll itself, read how it was nearly burned as a funeral offering in 1650, and leave through the webring for further reading elsewhere on the web.

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