Guan Liang’s 1940 masterpiece Shan Shui Liang Ting (《山水凉亭》) symbolises the integration of Western modernist techniques into the venerable tradition of Chinese landscape art.
In 2007, Yin Zhaoyang crafted a grand landscape piece, portraying peaks and stone façades engulfed in the dwindling golden rays of sunshine before dusk, a hidden monastery beneath the cliffs, and serpentine paths that lead to this quiet sanctuary.