{"product_id":"wang-jian-landscapes-in-the-styles-of-old-masters-dated-1668-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Wang Jian - Landscapes in the styles of old masters - dated 1668 v1 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWang Jian - Landscapes in the styles of old masters - dated 1668 v1 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a single leaf from Wang Jian's 1668 album, an ink and colour landscape that copies the manner of earlier masters and shows a Qing-dynasty painter working entirely within the classical tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition is vertical. A towering mountain peak rises through the centre and dominates the sheet, its sides built up in charcoal and warm grey ink. Below it, village houses sit on a hillside, and pine and deciduous trees gather in clusters that give the eye a path down through the scene. A thatched pavilion stands beside a stream at the foot of the land. The palette is restrained: charcoal and warm grey on pale paper, with a touch of vermilion red that picks out a single accent against the monochrome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWang Jian painted this leaf in the orthodox manner, deliberately emulating the styles of old masters rather than inventing new ones. For the scholar-painter of the period, that devotion to antiquity was a form of cultivation, a way of tying one's brush to an unbroken lineage of ancient models. Wang Jian was one of the Six Masters of the early Qing, and this album records his mature career, when he studied and reinterpreted historical landscape styles systematically. The work belongs to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy This Sticker Works\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the mountain, pavilion and trees become the edge of the object itself. Set against a surface, the leaf reads as a fragment of a larger album, which suits a design built from one page of a series. Collectors of Chinese painting and fans of the Six Masters will recognise the lineage at a glance, and the vermilion accent gives the composition its focal point at close range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48534610182362,"sku":"12344654288690575886","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48534610215130,"sku":"14230205765445249225","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48534610247898,"sku":"15911293579424519228","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48534610280666,"sku":"33893705683733637374","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48534610313434,"sku":"21071229540265696711","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48534610346202,"sku":"21365083882757330928","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48534610378970,"sku":"22125407141520095833","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48534610411738,"sku":"22818675660800147011","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/wang-jian-landscapes-in-the-styles-of-old-masters-dated-1668-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-unknown-alt-3.webp?v=1788218946","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/wang-jian-landscapes-in-the-styles-of-old-masters-dated-1668-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}