Painter Song Di

Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. And landscape painting is considered the highest form of the Chinese ink and brush painting genre. The Chinese tradition of "pure" landscapes was well established by the time the oldest surviving ink paintings were executed. One artist of the present day brings the genre to new heights with his "Colorful Landscape" paintings. In today's The List, we get to know Song Di and his fictional and mystical world of landscapes.

The paradisiacal scenery of mountains and rivers has long been a philosophical interest for Chinese literati.

For 63-year-old Song Di, his landscape paintings are not an open window for the viewer's eye, they are objects for the viewer's mind. His works are more like a vehicle of philosophy.

When Song Di works on "Shan Shui" painting, or "Mountain and Water" painting, he does not try to present an image of what he has seen in nature, but what he thinks about nature. He doesn't care whether his colors and shapes look real or not.