Mountain Landscape after Jīng Hào

In this work, Lǚ Huànchéng uses painting modes of the distant past to evoke an antique air. Blue and green mountains recall ancient landscape paintings and reference a mystic utopia of immortals and sages. Moreover, the overhanging shapes and rhythmic progression of the mountain peaks allude to the style of a painting master and art theorist of the 10th century, Jīng Hào 荆浩, as noted in the artist’s inscription.