There he painted and wrote on the Chinese landscape, depicting its grandeur and immemorial beauty, its precipitous crags, waterfalls and rushing streams; a natural world in which human beings are so tiny as to be almost invisible and their deeds merely transient. It was here that Jing developed the ideas that would underpin China’s most influential school of painting, articulating a debate on the nature of reality and the rejection of worldly desires in sublime landscapes.
