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A 12 page paper which examines some of the art and
artists from early Chinese art. The paper examines the significance and contribution to
society and art in early Chinese history. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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12 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAchnar.rtf
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the social and political world they lived in. In essence, the artists were revered and clearly respected, a reality that goes on even today in many Asian countries. The following
paper examines some of the art forms and the artists of early Chinese history. The paper first examines art and artists in general. From there the paper discusses the Silk
Road, which was a very important part of early Chinese history, especially where art is concerned. Lastly the paper discusses one of the most noted period in Chinese history, concerning
art, the Song dynasty. Art and Artists Chinese art and early artists make for a very complex topic and as such needs to be broken down into particular
periods and forms of art. The first to be examined is landscape painting. "Waters, mountains, trees and rocks in pictorial art were intended originally for serving as a foil to
the figures. Due to the phenomenal rise of interest, however, in the philosophy and literature related to natural landscape, they in turn aroused the aesthetic charming interest peculiar to the
painters" (Chinas Ancient Theory of Painting). This clearly led to landscapes being a powerful form of art in and of themselves. "Among the extant pieces, the earliest landscape works
can be found in Zhan Ziqians Spring Excursion. Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were the representative artists of maturity" (Chinas Ancient
Theory of Painting). Their particular paintings, or renditions of landscapes, were characterized quite often "by the use of blue and green to a new height. Their contemporaries, Wu Daozi and
Wang Wei explored the monochrome inkwashes of landscape painting, forming a sort of system which reached its maturity later through the efforts of Jing Hao of the Five Dynasties, whose
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