Chinese Landscape Painting for Beginners(怎樣畫山水畫)（簡體書）

Chinese painting prior to the 20th cen-tury achieved great success in depic-tions of landscapes. To engage in such a genre,either wholeheartedly or as a dilettant, is anexciting experience.
Specially prepared for the Western reader in-terested in Chinese painting, this manual with250 colour ill ustrations shows how ""mountainsand waters"" (which are the predominant mo-tifs of Chinese landscape) are painted, withcomparative explanations of Chinese andWestern artists' different approaches.

Born in Xinji, Hebei Province in 1936, LiDongxu (styled as Li Jiuxing) graduated from Tianjin Fine Arts Acad-emy in 1962. He stud-ied landscape tech-niques from renowned artists such as Liu Junli,Sun Qifeng and Wang Songyu. Over many years he focused his attention on the land-scapes of the master artist Zhang Daqian (Chang Daichien).
Drawing on the work of a number of masters,he has created his own personal style noted for its simple vigour. His art shows a profound training in tradition and at the same time is imbued with the spirit of our time. Having ac-cumulated theoretical knowledge and experi-ence in artistic creation, he has written several works including Eighteen Lectures on Brush-work and Ink, Collected Paintings in Traditional Chinese Style, Soul of China (long scroll),Landscape in Ice and Snow.

Introduction
Chinese Landscape Mountain Water Painting
The ""Four Treasures""
The Brush and Strokes
Techniques of Painting Different Objects in Landscape
　Trees
　Rocks and Texture-strokes
　Clouds and Water
　The impact of man
　Colouring
Painting from Life
　Multi-focus perspective
　A stone has three surfaces
　A tree has branches extending in four directions
　Representation of seasons and time
　""Spirit"" of mountains
Creating a Landscape Painting
　Composition
　Three ways to display distant views
Notable Masterpieces
　Soul of China
Appendix
　Tricks-painting with instruments other than the brush