Tang Dynasty.

Wu Daozi (about 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty and was honored as the Painting Saint in the history of painting. Han nationality, from Yangdi (now Yuzhou, Henan). He was born around AD 680 (the first year of Yonglong) and died around AD 758 (the first year of Qianyuan). He was lonely and poor, and he became famous for his paintings when he was young. He once served as county lieutenant in Xiaqiu, Yanzhou (now Ziyang, Shandong), but resigned soon after. Later he lived in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation.

During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the court for his good painting skills and served successively as enshrined minister, doctor of internal medicine, and friend of King Ning. He once studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and learned how to use pens by watching Lady Gongsun dance her sword. He is good at Buddhism, Taoism, gods and ghosts, figures, landscapes, birds and beasts, vegetation, pavilions, etc. He is especially good at Buddhism, Taoism, figures, and mural creation.

The reason why Wu Daozi achieved such extraordinary achievements in the art of painting is because he can innovate. He is good at absorbing the essence from complex object forms, and summarizes the concave and convex surfaces, yin and yang surfaces, into irreducible "lines". He combines the inner movement of objects to form the organizational rules of lines, such as the height, side, depth, and width of clothing lines. The postures of slanting, curling, folding, floating and lifting describe the character of the object based entirely on the organization of lines.

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