The influence of Wu Daozi in the history of Chinese art

Wu Daozi's representative works include "The Heavenly King Sends His Son", "Eighty-seven Immortal Scrolls", "Confucius Xingjiao Statue", "Bodhisattva", "Ghost Uncle" and so on.

Wu Daozi (c. 686-760 AD): Xuanzong gave the name Daoxuan, honored as Wu Sheng, the first great painter of the Tang Dynasty, was called the "painting saint" by later generations, and was respected as the ancestor by folk painters, a native of Yangzhai, Henan Province (now Yuzhou, Henan Province).

The recognized representative works of Wu painting are "The Picture of the Heavenly King Sending His Son", "Eighty-seven Immortal Scrolls", "Confucius Xingjiao Statue", "Bodhisattva", "Ghost Uncle" and so on. The existing original murals include "Clouds and Rain", "Vimala Statue", "Xianning of All Nations" and so on. Now Taiwan's "Baoji Bingara Buddha Statue", "Guan Gong Statue", "Hundred Sons Picture" and so on.

There are also some authentic facsimile works, such as "Wu Daozi Baye Leaf Rulai Painting" (seven pieces), "Shaolin Guanyin", "Daxiong True Icon" and so on. There are 50 "Daozi Mobao" that flowed into Germany and 6 "Valley Maps" that went to Japan. Although Wu Daozi created many works in his life, very few authentic works have been handed down.

Character evaluation:

Wu Daozi is an all-round painter, who is omnipotent and omnipotent in figures, ghosts and gods, landscapes, pavilions, flowers and trees, birds and beasts. The Kaiyuan Tianbao period was the heyday of Wu Daozi's painting creation. At this time, he left more than 300 murals in Luoyang and Chang'an temples alone, and there were also a large number of scroll paintings.

According to the "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum" compiled by Zhao Ji of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, hundreds of years have passed, and during the Xuanhe period of the Song Dynasty (1119 1125), there are still 93 scroll paintings of Wu Daozi in the palace. At present, there are still 391 paintings, inscriptions, paintings, poems, paintings, oral paintings, and overseas traces related to Wu Daozi.

Wu Daozi's representative works are as follows:Wu Daozi painted countless paintings in his life, and his more famous representative works include "The Heavenly King Sends His Son", "Emperor Wu of Liang", "Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls", "Xi Hou", "The Ming Emperor Receives the Seal", "The Statue of Confucius", "Hell in Disguise", "The Heavenly King of Tota", "Ten Fingers Zhong Kui", "Baoji Bingara Buddha Statue", "Xianning of All Nations", "Clouds and Rain", "Galloping Rivers and Seas", "Three Hundred Miles of Jialing River Landscape", "Nanyue Map".

Wu Daozi's painting styleIn terms of painting creation, Wu Daozi's life can be divided into two periods, and the time of his arrival in Chang'an in the tenth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty (722 AD) is the dividing point. Prior to this, he was still bound by the traditional style of painting, painting in the style that was popular at that time, and his works used fine brushes and laid colors, which was the so-called "dense body" style of later generations. After that, after accumulating experience in the production of temple murals, his works began to create their own style and pattern, tending to a simple and heavy "sparse" painting method, thus opening the era of Wu Daozi's painting.

Because most of the murals he created during his lifetime were murals, just like the situation of other muralists, because the buildings of the Tang Dynasty had long since collapsed, and this kind of painting has completely disappeared today, resulting in future generations not knowing what the faces of the murals and statues of Buddhism, Taoism, ghosts and gods created by him are.

Wu Daozi's representative work is "Sending the Child to the Heavenly King Picture Scroll". Wu Daozi's recognized masterpiece is "Sending the Child to the Heavenly King Picture Scroll", which is considered a masterpiece because this painting reflects Wu Daozi's basic painting style, creates a new painting method, and breaks the gossamer line painting method that has been copied by Gu Kaizhi for a long time.

Wu Daozi, who has been passed down for thousands of years, has been admired by people, has been respected as the "painting saint" for thousands of years, and is also the most prestigious among many painters in ancient times, and he is also regarded as the "ancestor" by folk painters. Wu Daozi created a large number of works, but unfortunately very few remained. Wu Daozi is not only good at painting landscape paintings, but also quite expressive when painting animals.

Later Influences:The reason why Wu Daozi has achieved such outstanding achievements in the art of painting is that he can innovate. He is good at absorbing the essence from the complex object form, summarizing the concave and convex surfaces, yin and yang surfaces into irreducible "lines", combined with the internal movement of the object, constituting the organizational rules of the lines, such as the high, side, deep, oblique, curling, folding, floating, and lifting postures of the clothing lines, and depicting the character of the objects based on the organization of the lines.

Artistic style: Wu Daozi paints figures, the gesture is round, and the clothes are fluttering in the wind. The murals of the Tang and Song dynasties in Dunhuang can be seen in a similar style.

Similar to Wu Daozi's style, he also rents the table and paints and smudges and other techniques. Scholars believe that the orchid leaf drawing in the Dunhuang murals and Wu Daozi's line drawing skills are also in the same line. The forms depicted in the popular orchid leaf depictions in the Tang Dynasty are soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, the stout ones are tall and powerful, and the fine ones are euphemistic and soft.

Contribution: The simple and elegant white painting of the Song Dynasty painter Li Gonglin was developed from the white painting of Wu Daozi who did not pretend to be the back, but only used ink traces, and the white painting became a new style of painting in China.

Today, when his relics have disappeared, Wu Daozi is still known in the painting world, because he created a school of painting that has dominated the history of the folk painting world for more than 1,000 years, the folk traditional painting school. The murals we see after the Tang Dynasty are all influenced by Wu Daozi. Yongle Palace in the Yuan Dynasty, Fagang Temple in the Ming Dynasty, etc., are all in the style of Wu Daozi, and the murals in Dunhuang are also the works of the Wu School.

Wu Daozi (c. 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and was known as the saint of painting in the history of painting.

Sending the child to the king" vertical centimeter, horizontal centimeter, now treasured in the Osaka Museum of Art, Japan.

Hell in Disguise depicts in detail what people experience when they die.

He once painted five dragons on the Datong Palace, "the linjia flies, every time it rains, that is, smoke", it is really alive and vivid.

Depicting the Jialing River.

A.D. 742-755 (Tianbao period) Tang Xuanzong suddenly remembered that the Jialing River in Shuzhong was beautiful and interesting, so he ordered Wu Daozi to go to the Jialing River by post boat to sketch. Xuanzong said with emotion: "Li Sixun's work for several months, and Wu Daoxuan's traces in one day, are extremely wonderful. ”

Wu Daozi, Wei Wuxi, Xiao Xiao, Chen Hong, etc., ordered the three of them to draw "Jinqiao Tu Qingpei" together. Chen Hong mainly painted the true face of Xuanzong and the white horse he rode on, Wei Wuxi mainly painted dogs and horses, mules and donkeys, cattle and sheep and other animals, while bridges, landscapes, cars, people, grass and trees, geese and birds, utensils, curtains and other themes were painted by Wu Daozi. After the painting of the "Golden Bridge Map", "the original manuscript of Shizhou is called the three uniques".