Taoist paintings
The chosen painting is from the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and is by one of the periods foremost painters, Ma Yuan (1190 -1225). The Sung period is believed to have been one of the greatest periods in terms of chinese painting. A Royal art academy was set up enabling the Emperors of the time to patronise the artists. Although there were many different styles in this period, the Sung Dynasty is best known for its landscape paintings. During the first period of this dynasty, the Northern Sung Dynasty, landscape painting tended towards the grandiose painting of tall cliff precipices with violent waterfalls and a tiny group of people. However this was a troubled time and the court was forced to flee towards the south and thus began the Southern Sung Period. During this time the emperors' painting academy produced a style of landscape known as the Ma-Hsia school. The name is derived from its two greatest artists, Ma Yuan and Hsia Kuei. Drawing on the expansiveness found in the Northern Sung tradition, they created views with less brushwork, mists became an important device to suggest landmass and to give the painting a light, ethereal quality. . Ma Yuan was often called "one-corner Ma," as he would restrict much of his painting to
En la pintura proveniente del primer periodo de la dinastia Sung se pintaba montaņa sobre montaņa, paisajes majetuosos y enormes para literalmente construir un microcosmos en el cual se podia racionalmente ver la forma del universo. Luego, durante la segunda mitad de la dinastia Ma Yuan, junto con su contemporaneo Hsia Kuei, simplificaron este manera de composicion, y formo un nuevo estilo, muy influyente, llamado Ma-Hsia. La presente imagen es un ejemplo de este estilo, se ve simplemente un sauce, en primer termino, a la orilla de un lago donde nadan unos patos y en el fondo dos montaņas. a single corner of the work, leaving the rest blank. This technique enhanced the sensation of open space and suggested infinity, qualities much prized in the Ma-Hsia tradition. En vez de limitar la vista, los artistas perfeccionaron nuevas tecnica y rituales para encontrar una via a traves de cual el hombre que contempla un paisaje, como este, pueda ver la realidad intrinsica del universo.
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Approximate Word count = 2409
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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