History of Chinese Art (volume 2)
by Chen Zhidong
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"History of Chinese Art (Volume 2)" (Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang to Two Songs) This volume shows the development of Chinese art in the fields of painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, etc., From the third century to the thirteenth century AD. It also pays attention to social changes in different eras and explores the social thoughts and humanistic values behind artistic works. During these thousands of years, the Chinese nation has experienced the blending of various cultures and has been constantly rejuvenated: since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there has been the integration and development of foreign Buddhist art and local civilization, as well as the formation of local religion-Taoism and its symbiotic dance with calligraphy; during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, figure painting gradually matured, and in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, there was the rise of landscape painting. In the late Tang Dynasty, the rise of flower-and-bird painting and "super realism" painting showed another mood of the times. At the same time, Chinese intellectuals gradually developed research on early Chinese art history, marking the high maturity of Chinese art; then the ink art of the Song Dynasty gradually matured, and calligraphy art and painting art diverged again, affecting the development of Chinese art in the following hundred years; the establishment of literati painting standards epoch-making opened up two aesthetic tendencies, the court and the folk, and Chinese art continued to develop in a more diversified direction...
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