A detail from ''Summer Mountains,'' attributed to Qu Ding
The uses of that vision varied. In “Summer Mountains,” attributed to the Southern Song painter Qu Ding, the landscape is descriptive, a pileup of painstakingly rendered details, from minute curved bridges to an elaborate temple tucked in a notch. By contrast, in Guo Xi’s water-soaked “Old Trees, Level Distance,” emotion reigns. The landscape looks as shadowed with regret as a Mahler song. Two old men, tiny figures, meet for a parting meal before one begins a journey. Where is he going? Will he return? Or is this a last goodbye? The men are dwarfed by a landscape seen through tears.
The uses of that vision varied. In “Summer Mountains,” attributed to the Southern Song painter Qu Ding, the landscape is descriptive, a pileup of painstakingly rendered details, from minute curved bridges to an elaborate temple tucked in a notch. By contrast, in Guo Xi’s water-soaked “Old Trees, Level Distance,” emotion reigns. The landscape looks as shadowed with regret as a Mahler song. Two old men, tiny figures, meet for a parting meal before one begins a journey. Where is he going? Will he return? Or is this a last goodbye? The men are dwarfed by a landscape seen through tears.
Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art
屈鼎，中國北宋畫家，生卒年不詳，河南開封人。
屈鼎以善畫山水著稱，傳世作品不多，而以美國紐約大都會藝術博物館收藏的《夏山圖》最為著名。
Qu Ding, (Chinese: 屈鼎) was a Chinese painter of Song Dynasty.
He learned paintings skills from Yan Wengui, a painting master of that time. "Summer Mountains", kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art, is perhaps the only work of his that has come down to present time. Landscapes in his painting brings out a panoramic view of mountains and rivers.
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