Page 177 - The Arts of China, By Michael Sullivan Good Book

1 89 Fan K'uar. active late tenth in <• .iris
1
eleventh century). Travelling amid
Mountains and Gorges. Hanging n roll,
Ink and colour on silk. Northern Sung
Dynasty.

times. The nearest parallel is to be found not in European art but in
music, in which the theme unfolds and develops in time. As we
unroll as much of the great panorama as we can comfortably pass
from right hand to left (never opening it out fully as is done in
museums), we find ourselves drawn unwittingly into the scene