Chinese Painting Blog » wall painting https://www.artisoo.com/blog Chinese art globe share Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:58:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Wall Paintings on Buddhist and Daoist Themes by Han Gan https://www.artisoo.com/blog/wall-paintings-on-buddhist-and-daoist-themes-by-han-gan/ https://www.artisoo.com/blog/wall-paintings-on-buddhist-and-daoist-themes-by-han-gan/#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2013 03:52:23 +0000 CNArtGallery http://www.artisoo.com/blog/?p=1123 Continue reading →]]> Han Gan was a Tang Dynasty painter, who, though recorded as having done wall paintings on Buddhist and Daoist themes, is best remembered for his horse paintings.

Han emphasized the strength and nobility of the horses of the Tang Empire by using a tautly controlled line and compositions of great clarity. The horse as a subject of Chinese painting was continued by Li Gonglin in the Song Dynasty (960–1279) and by Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), among others.

Han Gan paintings

Han Gan paintings

 

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