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Paintings of the T'ang Dynasty (618¡V907)
The T'ang Dynasty has marked one of the peaks in Chinese civilisation and Chinese painting had a very dramatic development during this period: Figure painting flourished while Buddhism painting and "court painting" also developed prosperously. At the royal court, artists such as Chou Fang (©PÌÄ) showed the splendor of court life in paintings of nobles, particularly the court ladies. Most of the T'ang artists outlined figures with fine black lines using brilliant colors and elaborate details.
As for landscape painting, there had been some developments in its techniques during the T'ang Dynasty. Li Ssu-hsˆ¢n (§õ«ä°V) and Li Zhaodao (§õ¬L¹D) (father and son) inherited the blue and green landscape from the previous Shuei Dynasty (¶¦´Â), while the great poet Wang Wei (¤ýºû) developed the brush and ink and wash painting of landscape. It is also believed that Wang had further combined poetry with painting in a more interconnected way. |
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