Taoist paintings

The chosen painting is from the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and is by one of the periods foremost painters, Ma Yüan (1190 –1225). The Sung period is believed to have been one of the greatest periods in terms of chinese painting. A Royal art academy was set up enabling the Emperors of the time to patronise the artists. Although there were many different styles in this period, the Sung Dynasty is best known for its landscape paintings. During the first period of this dynasty, the Northern Sung Dynasty, landscape painting tended towards the grandiose painting of tall cliff precipices with violent waterfalls and a tiny group of people.

However this was a troubled time and the court was forced to flee towards the south and thus began the Southern Sung Period. During this time the emperors' painting academy produced a style of landscape known as the Ma-Hsia school. The name is derived from its two greatest artists, Ma Yuan and Hsia Kuei. Drawing on the expansiveness found in the Northern Sung tradition, they created views with less brushwork, mists became an important device to suggest landmass and to give the painting a light, ethereal quality. . Ma Yuan was often called "one-corner Ma," as he would restrict much of his painting to

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Habiendo compuesto los componentes en forma de zig-zag, Ma Yuan ha construido una via perfecta que nos lleva de un lado a otro del cuadro, nos propone un viaje que permite contemplar toda la naturaleza completa y en harmonia. Mountains were home to revered immortals, Taoist temples and retreats, and the herbs and fungi that gave long life.

El artista compara el paisaje que esta pintando con el terreno de su alma, no habia ninguna differencia entre el mundo interior del hombre con el del mundo natural, y este mundo no tiene limites. The ancient Chinese placed great emphasis on trying to nuture the the qi or the life force in them. Pero forman una parte esencial de la obra y de la filosofia Taoista. The Sung period is best known, however, for landscape painting. Toda naturaleza tiene que estar en harmonia, y por lo tanto el artista siempre intenta encontrar la harmonia en sus cuadros. However it was also believed that all things had an unperceptible inner nature of their own. As such, Of all the material embodiments of energy, mountains were the most impressive, with their massive twisting forms thrusting upward to the heavens. Taoism ended in 1911 at the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty.

Estos patos representan a el espectador, ya que tienen la misma importancia en la naturaleza, y ahora forma parte de este microcosmos. Bird and flower themes were always popular with the royal family, as were portraits of favorite pets and children. The literati were amateurs who often disagreed with the styles fashionable at the royal academy and who produced their own distinctive landscapes. La montaña necesita a su opuesto el agua para estar completo.

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