Ancient+Chinese+Painting

Painting in the Tang Dynasty

They painted the lanscape mostly between 618-907 CE and this was to capture the beauty and rhythm of nature. The artist of that time used a brush dipped in back ink to paint these pictures. This tecnique is close to how some people wrote, like calligraphy. The artwork was normally done on paper or silk and then mounted on a wall or rolled into a scroll.

Dong Yuan was a painter during this time period and he used some new tecniques that are now known as pointalism and crosshatching. This added more detail and life to his paintings without the change of colors.

Here are some of his paintings:



However, Yuan used some colors in his paintings and this was to show the difference between people and nature.