Dong Yuan (董源 Dŏng Yuán|w=
Tung Yüan, Gan: dung3 ngion4; c. 934 – c. 962) was a Chinese painter.
He was born in Zhongling (钟陵; present-day Jinxian County, Jiangxi Province). Dong Yuan was active in the Southern Tang Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was from Nanjing, which was a center for culture and the arts.
He was known for both figure and landscape paintings, and exemplified the elegant style which would become the standard for brush painting in China for the next nine centuries. He and his pupil Juran (巨然) were the founders of the Southern style of landscape painting, known as the Jiangnan Landscape style. Together with Jing Hao and Guan Tong of the Northern style they constituted the four seminal painters of that time.
As with many artists in China, his profession was as an official, here he studied the existing styles of Li Sixun and Wang Wei. However, he added to these masters' techniques; he included more sophisticated perspective.
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The Xiao and Xiang Rivers or Scenes along the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, a painting on silk (49.80 cm by 141.30 cm), is one of his best-known masterpieces. It demonstrates his exquisite techniques, and his sense of composition. The clouds break the background mountains into a central pyramid composition and a secondary pyramid, by softening the mountain line, he makes the immobile effect more pronounced.
The inlet by breaking the landscape into groups makes the serenity of the foreground more pronounced, instead of simply being a border to the composition, it is a space of its own, into which the boat on the far right intrudes, even though it is tiny compared to the mountains. Left of center, he uses his unusual brush stroke techniques, later copied in countless paintings, to give a strong sense of foliage to the trees, which contrasts with the rounded waves of stone that make up the mountains themselves. This gives the painting a more distinct middle ground, and makes the mountains have an aura and distance which gives them greater grandeur and personality. He also used "face like" patterns in the mountain on the right. A painting attributed to Dong Yuan, The Riverbank, is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was a gift from New York financier Oscar Tang, though some scholars believe it may be a modern forgery by Zhang Daqian.
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董源（），名一作
元，字
叔達，江南鍾陵（今江西進賢）人，亦作
江南人，五代
南唐畫家。他曾擔任北苑副使，因此又稱
董北苑。
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風格
最擅長山水，其水墨及著色輕淡者，不為奇峭之筆，山石用麻皮皴，作峰巒出沒，雲霧顯晦，溪橋漁浦，洲渚掩映的江南景色，評者以為平淡天真，唐無此品；其著色濃重者，山石皴紋甚少，景物富麗，宛然李思訓風格。
董源的水墨山水畫，巨然加以發展，世稱「董巨」，為五代北宋間南方山水畫的主要流派，對元朝及其後畫壇影響甚大，與李成和范寬並為「宋三家」。相傳的作品有〈瀟湘圖〉、〈夏山圖〉、〈夏景山口待渡〉、半幅〈溪山行旅〉和〈溪岸圖〉等。
董源兼工牛、虎、龍、水。《圖畫見聞志》上說他畫牛虎，有「肉肌豐混，毛毳輕浮，具足精神，脫略凡格」之評。
作品
《洞天山堂》軸，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《龍宿郊民圖》，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《畫夏山欲雨》軸，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《夏山深遠》軸，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《長林蕭逸》軸，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《萬國清寧》軸，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《江堤晚景》軸，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
《夏口待渡圖》，藏於台灣台北國立故宮博物院
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