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A 5 page paper which examines the painters
and paintings of the Song dynasty in China. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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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. One of
the most noted period in Chinese history, concerning art, was the Song dynasty. The following paper examines some of the social, religious, and political conditions of the time period while
discussing some of the most famous painters and paintings of the time period. Song Dynasty While there were many painters during the Song dynasty, four of the most
noted were Liang Kai, Xia Gui, Ma Yuan, and Ma Lin. These painters, and many others like them, created paintings that were somewhat particular to the period: "Most of the
Song Dynasty paintings were descriptions of real landscape. Basing on keen observation of nature, painters reproduced the beautiful landscape in ink by summarizing and refining" (Chinaguides.net). We note that, in
particular, "Ma Yuan was noted for his clear-cut and forceful style and bold ink lines. He confined landscapes into a corner, thus known as Corner Ma" and "Xia Guis paintings
usually depicted half of the landscape, striking one as large in a limited space. He was named Half Xia" (Chinaguides.net). There were other artists as well during this period.
One was Go Xi who "was a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and a follower of Li Cheng in style. He was the first to put forward the
three-distance theory in painting creation, that is the appearance of objects on paper can be established through different perspective points from various angles in terms of distance, the longitudinal, the
latitudinal and the magnitudinal, while Western theory sticks to one perspective point from one angle in each painting work" (Chinaguides.net). Another painter was a monk named Ju Ran. He
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