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this period, Chinese painting matured and entered a stage of full
development. Figure painters advocated "appearance as a vehicle
conveying the spirit", emphasizing the internal spiritual quality
of paintings. Landscape painting was divided into two major schools:
the blue-and-green and the ink-and-wash styles. Various skills of
expression were created for flower-and-bird paintings such as realistic
meticulous painting with color,ink-and-wash painting with light color
and boneless ink-wash painting. The Imperial Art Academy flourished
during the northern and southern Song dynasties.The southern Song
witnessed a trend of simple and bold strokes in landscape paintings.
Literati ink-and-wash painting became a unique style developing outside
the Academy, which stressed free expression of artists' personality. |
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