Friday December 7, 2012

Tang and Sung Dynasty - Poetry, Art, and Trade

  • tang art - calligraphy was the purest form of art and paintings were mostly formed on silk until paper was invented and the art was then formed onto scrolls.
  • tang art- they liked to use landscapes and distances in the paintings were blurred and there was an overall impressionistic expression given in the other natural props.
  • shanshui - which means water mountain painting
  • sung art - artists created paintings that people could gaze at. they needed inspiration so they took artists other things and landscape paintings were big in this dynasty.
  • poetry for the tang dynasty - tang poets we know today originated during the high tang era of poetry. the late tang was a flourishing point in poetry.
  • poetry of the song dynasty - got poetry from the tang dynasty. their poetry was folk song type and long and short sentences. for the song dynasty there is two types of poetry- short ream and slow song poetry.
  • tang and sing trade - prospered from their trade, received trade from the west, and were heavily influenced by that trade.

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