1, Wu Daozi, also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty and was regarded as a saint in the history of painting. Han, from Yangzhai. Born around 680 AD, he died around 758 AD. Lonely and poor, you will have a painting name when you are young. He served as Yanzhou county magistrate and resigned soon. After that, he settled in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation.
2. During the kaiyuan period, he was called to the DPRK for good painting, and served as a doctor, an internal teacher and Wang You. He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He, watched sword dancing and experienced the skill of using a pen. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts and gods, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions and so on. , especially good at Buddhism and figures, and good at mural creation.
3. Wu Daozi was born around 685 AD (Tang Gaozong period). As a teenager, he was lonely and poor. He studied calligraphy under calligraphers Zhang Xu and He, and then made great efforts to attack painting, gradually mastering the wonderful method of painting. Because he is diligent and studious, he is "poor and refined" when he is not weak.
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In 709 AD (the third year of Jinglong), Wei was named assistant minister and Tong Zhongshu. At this point, Wu Daozi served as a beadle under his command. He "makes him angry with good wine, and he drinks it every time it costs him money." Later, he served as county commandant (now Yanzhou, Shandong Province). In the early years of Kaiyuan, Wu Daozi stopped being an official and began to travel eastward.
Wu Daozi's outstanding achievement in painting art stems from his deliberate innovation and courage to create. His two words are recorded in the famous paintings of past dynasties: "Everyone is close at hand, but I am far from painting. Everyone is alike, but I am far from the mortal world."