Mountain Landscape - Sun Yun-sheng

The most brilliant aspect of this painting is the combination of splashed colors and traditional landscape brushwork. Sun Yun-sheng first laid a base with wet ink on the left side of the canvas, then alternately splashed and dyed it with mineral green and mineral blue, allowing the ink, color, and water to blend naturally, forming mountains that are rich and hazy. He then followed the natural forms created by the colors to outline the mountains, cliffs, and pavilions, and finally added trees, houses, sails, and figures with fine brushstrokes. The composition is also interesting: the mountains on the left are imposing, while the gaze on the right gradually extends to the riverbank and distant sail shadows. The painting simultaneously employs both "high-distance" and "level-distance" spatial perspectives, offering both the grandeur of oppressive mountain ranges and the openness of gazing at the river and sky. This painting shows Sun Yun-sheng's inheritance from Zhang Daqian, but it's not just an imitation of the splashed color effect. He first allowed the incidentally formed ink and color masses to provide the mountain forms, then established concrete scenery with brush lines, letting chance and control complete the picture together. I believe this is precisely what is worth appreciating about Da Feng Tang painting: the splashing of ink and colors is not arbitrary, but rather transforms accidental elements into orderly landscapes.