Source #10

1. http://www.art-virtue.com/painting/history/sung/sung.htm
2. Joshua Hough
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4. The Sung Dynasty artists continued the traditions passed down from the Five Dynasties Period, and in both the landscape art of the north – rugged, steep and precipitous – and in the south – alluring, misty and elegant – scenes were created in which one could travel, gaze, wander and dwell. In paintings of the Sung Dynasty, one could find animals, birds, flowers and humans that were not only accurately depicted in shape and manner, their internal substance, emotions, ideas, and aspiration were also captured by the artists. The Sung Dynasty can be seen as the highlight in the development of traditional Chinese painting. The main themes of Sung painting were landscape, birds and flowers, and the living nature such as bamboos, birds, insects, horses and other plants and animals, and figure painting. The first period was characterized by realism with many landscape paintings drawn out with meticulous and vigorous brushstrokes. Emperor Huizong invented the Skinny Golden Style. The last period of Sung painting was characterized by the beautiful landscape paintings of the south. Literati painting was conceived as a mode through which a noble person expressed his ethical personality. It was much less concerned with technical showiness. Literati painters specialized in plain ink paintings, sometimes with minimal color. They lay great emphasis on the idea that the style with which a painter controlled his brush conveyed the inner style of his character - brushstrokes were seen as expressions of the spirit more than the matters of composition or skill in realistic depiction.
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