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[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118885215.ch23 by Jerome Silbergeld 9/10/15 WILEY Online Library] | [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118885215.ch23 by Jerome Silbergeld 9/10/15 WILEY Online Library] | ||
Defining and describing just what “literati painting” is intended to mean has long been a challenge to historians both Chinese and Western. This chapter presents some of the complexities of this subject that continue to challenge, or even elude, art historians. Was “literati painting” (especially in its historical origins) a style, visually distinctive and clearly identifiable? The chapter answers this and other questions related to the origins of literati painting in the Song dynasty. | Defining and describing just what “literati painting” is intended to mean has long been a challenge to historians both Chinese and Western. This chapter presents some of the complexities of this subject that continue to challenge, or even elude, art historians. Was “literati painting” (especially in its historical origins) a style, visually distinctive and clearly identifiable? The chapter answers this and other questions related to the origins of literati painting in the Song dynasty. | ||
=====Famous Chinese Painters===== | |||
[https://www.comuseum.com/painting/masters/ by China Online Museum] | |||
History is not only written, but also painted. Throughout the annals of Chinese painting, numerous painting masters emerged to record history. These Chinese painters, whether professional artisans at court, scholar officials in their gardens, Daoist recluses in the mountains, or Buddhist monks in the temples, have all depicted the world in their eyes and minds. | |||
