Wu Daozi (about 686 ~ 760) was a painter in the Tang Dynasty in China. Later renamed Dao Xuan, he was honored as Wu Sheng, a native of Yangzhai (now Yu County, Henan Province). Living alone in poverty. He was a folk painter in his early years, but he was not weak, poor and beautiful. During the Dragon Boat Festival (705 ~ 707), Wei was a carefree little official. Jing the Year of the Loong (707 ~ 7 10) was appointed as the county magistrate (now Ziyang County, Shandong Province) and resigned soon. Later, he traveled to Luoyang, the capital of the East, where he studied under Zhang Xu and He, then engaged in painting and made murals in temples. During the kaiyuan period (7 13 ~ 74 1), he was banned from school by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and painted for the imperial court. He was appointed as a doctor of pilgrimage and a doctor of internal medicine, and his official position was tour. Entrusted to paint some historical paintings or political portraits (such as "Golden Bridge Map"), he often makes murals in Chang 'an and Luoyang to attract audiences and gain a great reputation. During the Tianbao period (742 ~ 756), he returned from a visit to Sichuan by imperial decree and painted more than 300 miles of beautiful scenery of Jialing River in Datong Hall. Xuanzong praised, "Li Sixun's achievements in a few months and Wu Daozi's achievements in a day are remarkable. After 758 years, his deeds are unknown. Wu Daozi was active in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In this period of strong national strength and economic prosperity, literature and art have developed unprecedentedly. Cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and exchanges in various artistic categories have laid a good foundation for his artistic achievements. He likes to associate with literati and celebrities, travel around the world, learn from Zhang Sengyou in painting, and approach Zhang Xiaoshi in France. His early paintings were exquisite and delicate, and he inherited the style of the Six Dynasties. After middle age, the handwriting is open and free, and highly mature. He is also good at figures, Buddhism and Taoism, ghosts and gods, landscapes, birds and animals, plants, temples and other themes, especially figures and Buddhism and Taoism. His murals in Chang 'an and Luoyang temples reached more than 300 walls, and there was no similarity. His "Hell in disguise" became famous for a while. Wu Daozi is full of creative spirit in art, saying that the change of landscape painting started from him. He used the brushwork of orchid leaves or water shield strips to express the folds of clothes and rounded them into floating trends, which Guo in the Northern Song Dynasty called "the Five Dynasties should be the wind" in his paintings. He also crossed the line with Jiao Mo, making an understatement, and was called "Wuzhuang" by the world. He expressed the sense of movement and quantity of objects through the fat and thin suppression of ink lines, which contributed to the development of line drawing. Because the brushwork is smooth, there is only a little brushwork, and the image is already very correct. Later generations called him and Zhang Sengyou "sparse" representative painters, which were different from Gu Kaizhi and Lu Tanwei's "dense". Su Shi rated his art as "innovative in statutes and ingenious in boldness of vision", and regarded him as a representative of Tang Dynasty painting, juxtaposed with poet Du Fu, essayist Han Yu and calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, and spoke highly of it: "As for painting in Wu Daozi, the change from ancient to modern has been completed." He was honored as a "painting saint" by later generations and as the founder of the mountain by folk craftsmen, which had a great influence on later paintings, especially the style of figure painting and line drawing. Wu Daozi's original works were hard to see in the Song Dynasty. The important manuscript "Born of Gautama Buddha" that has been handed down to this day may have been copied by Song people, and it is generally believed that it is closer to Wu Daozi style. This picture shows the story that after the birth of Prince Sida (the late ancestor of Buddhism, Sakyamuni), his father, King suddhodana and Mrs. Moyev, took him to worship the Dazizai Temple and the gods worshipped him. The paintings should be foreigners, but they are all portrayed as the image of the aristocratic class in the Tang Dynasty. Other replicas include Buddha statues of Bao Galuo and Daozi. There are also many line-drawing stone carvings, most of which are copied repeatedly. His style can also be seen in the Wei Mo Jing in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes 103. Since the Kaiyuan period, the murals in temples have become popular with the "Wu style". By the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, Wu Daozi had many successors, such as Gao Yi, Gao and Wu Zongyuan. Wu Daozi's contemporaries are famous for Lu Lengjia. Lu Lengjia was a Taoist and Buddhist painter in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and also a native of Lu Lengjia and Chang 'an. His painting style is like Wu Daozi's, and he is good at Buddhist painting. During the Anshi Rebellion, he entered Shu with Xuanzong, and in the first year of his reign (758 ~ 760), he painted "Monks in the Street" at Dashengci Temple in Chengdu, bringing Chang 'an painting style to Shu. Contemporary Yang Tingguang is good at explaining Taoism, ghosts and gods, figures, miscellaneous paintings and landscapes, all of which are extremely wonderful. Kaiyuan is as famous as Wu Daozi, and its brushwork is undiminished. References:

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