Artist

Gao Keming|Liu Songnian

Portrait of Gao Keming|Liu Songnian

Gao Keming|Liu Songnian is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This pair of twelfth-century artists painted misty mountain valleys wrapped in winter quiet. They worked in ink and silk, rolling scenes into handscrolls like time-lapse poems you can carry. Their surviving roll, *Snowy Landscape with Rustic Riverside Retreat*, shows pines dusted with snow and thatched huts half-hidden behind boulders. Take a closer look at the way the ink bleeds into the silk—there’s no color, just layers of black and white telling a whole story. Next, trace the same handscroll from right to left to feel the wind moving through the scene.

Works by Gao Keming|Liu Songnian

Collections represented

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