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Colorful vision

In Chinese, the term jingse is composed of two characters, jing, meaning landscape, and se, meaning color, which stresses the importance of color arrangements in natural scenery. In the realm of classical landscape paintings, or shanshui (meaning "mountains and waters"), a predominant combination of blue and green (qinglyu) has been used to convey the majesty and dynamism of the natural world.

Jing Se, an exhibition currently on display at the Suzhou Art Museum in Jiangsu province, centers on the modern development of qinglyu landscape paintings. The examples on show have been painted in one of two traditional ways, either on long, horizontal scrolls, or in ceye, albums made of leaves. The scrolls are on display until Nov 19, while the ceye albums are on display until Feb 8.