Wu Daozi, the first painter in the Tang Dynasty, was born around 680 AD. It is reported that Wu Daozi was a poor boy and had a painting name when he was young. He used to be the county commandant of Qiu Yan (now Ziyang, Shandong Province), and soon resigned. After that, he settled in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation.

He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He, watched sword dancing and experienced the skill of using a pen. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts and gods, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions and so on. , especially good at Buddhism and figures, and good at mural creation.

Creative characteristics

Wu Daozi has made such outstanding achievements in painting art because he can innovate.

He is good at absorbing the essence from complex object forms and generalizing concave-convex surfaces and yin-yang surfaces into irreducible "lines". Combining the internal movement of objects, he formed the organizational rules of clothing lines such as height, edge, depth, inclination, rolling, folding, floating and lifting posture, and portrayed the character of objects completely based on the organization of lines.

This line has strict requirements, each line meets the requirements of vivid modeling, each line is full of rhythmic beauty, and it is a creative line that combines the achievements of the previous generation.