shan shui style

Examples of shan shui style in the following topics:

• Painting during the Tang Dynasty

  • The advances in technique and style that characterized Tang Dynasty painting had a lasting influence in the art of other countries, especially in East Asia (including Korea, Japan, and Vietnam) and central Asia.
  • During the early Tang period, the painting style was mainly inherited from the previous Sui Dynasty.
  • The great poet Wang Wei first created the brush and ink painting of shan-shui, literally "mountains and waters."
  • Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao (father and son) were the most famous painters of shan shui.
  • Describe the advancements of the "painting of people" style, the shuimohua style, the shan-shui style, and painting on architectural structures that occurred during the Tang Dynasty.

• Painting under the Song Dynasty

  • The shan shui style painting—"shan" meaning mountain and "shui" meaning river—became prominent features in Chinese landscape art.
  • Zhang Zeduan was instrumental in the early history of the Chinese landscape art style known as shan shui.
  • Compare and contrast the Northern and Southern Song styles of painting.

• Burmese Art

  • Architecture during this time was built in two broad styles: the stupa-style solid temple, inherited from the Pyu city-states, and the gu-style hollow temple.
  • The Innwa style continued to be popular in Burma until the end of the 18th century, when a markedly new style of Buddha image, the Mandalay style, emerged under the Konbaung dynasty (1752 - 1885).
  • Another common style of the Buddha image is the Shan style, inherited from the Shan people who inhabit the highlands of Burma.
  • Buddhas in the Shan style have angular features, large and prominently-pointed noses, and small, thin mouths.
  • Discuss the art and architecture of the Burmese Pyu culture, the Pagan Empire, the Innwa style of the Ava Kingdom, the Mandalay style of the Konbaung dynasty, and the Shan style.