Question

Landscape painting is not as highly regarded as other painting styles or forms, such as portraiture, in china. true false

Answer 1

False, it was then and is now

Answer 2

Answer:

FALSE

Explanation:

   On the one hand, Buddhist religious murals that, linked to the techniques, iconographies and formalism of the Indian world, were executed between the 4th and 10th centuries inside some of the temples excavated in the rock (as was the case with set of Mogao or Dunhuang). On the other hand, profane character painting developed that touched on various themes such as portraiture, episodes of historical nature or scenes of the Court's daily life. These paintings were represented not only on the walls of the palaces and mausoleums, but also on other media, since from the 4th century onwards artists such as Gu Gaizhi (344-406), one of the first writers of Chinese painting, began the development of painting. on silk and paper, using brush, ink, ink and color (plant or mineral pigments diluted with water) as fundamental instruments that have perpetuated over time. Very important was also the fact that in this period the genre of Chinese painting par excellence, the landscape, began by the hand of artists such as Wang Wei (699-759), percussion of monochromatic painting and the technique of watery and Wu Daozi (century). VIII). The work of these two artists was continued by Jing Hao (870-925), a painter and painting expert, and Li Cheng (919-967), both from the Five Dynasty period, who, with their essays and panoramic landscape works by great peaks and impressive views, have taken independent and elevated the landscape genre to the highest category. From then on, the landscape, understood not as a bed of reliable and descriptive representation of reality, but as an individual expression of the spirit of nature that underlies appearances, will be the main theme of Chinese painting.