Wu Daozi's three most famous paintings are: "The Picture of the Heavenly King Sending His Son", "The Picture of Hell in Disguise", and "The Picture of Emperor Ming Watching the Horse".
1. "Picture of the Heavenly King Sending His Son": "Picture of the Heavenly King Sending His Son" is an ink-and-ink painting on paper created by Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty based on the Buddhist scripture "Ruiying Benqi Jing". It is said that it was copied by the Song Dynasty. This work is now in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Japan. This painting depicts a foreign story, but the people, ghosts, gods, animals, etc. in the painting are completely Chineseized. This is probably due to the increasing integration of Buddhism and China's local changes in the Tang Dynasty. This picture is rich in imagery, with the birth of Sakyamuni as the center, and the conditions of all realms of heaven and earth are vividly visible. The skill is superb, the imagination is strange, and it is dazzling.
2. "Hell in Disguise": This mural is one of Wu Daozi's masterpieces. This painting is full of anger and changes into strange shapes, which makes people shudder. Wu Daozi quickly became a name that everyone knew and knew in the Tang Dynasty.
3. "The Ming Emperor Watching Horses": "The Ming Emperor Watching Horses" depicts the Ming Dynasty emperor's horse, with fluttering pleats and strong lines. It is known as "Wu Dai Dang Feng". This painting not only has a high status in the art world, but also reflects the development level of Chinese painting at that time. Today, the painting is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which houses the largest collection of fine Eastern paintings today. It is included in the collection of the American Museum of Art and is one of Wu Daozi's masterpieces.
Introduction to Wu Daozi:
Wu Daozi, also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty and was honored as the Painting Saint in the history of painting. Han nationality, from Yangdi (now Yuzhou, Henan). He was born around AD 680 (the first year of Yonglong) and died around AD 758 (the first year of Qianyuan). He was lonely and poor, and he became famous for his paintings when he was young. He once served as county lieutenant in Xiaqiu, Yanzhou (now Ziyang, Shandong), but resigned soon after. Later he lived in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation.
During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the court for his good painting skills and served successively as enshrined minister, doctor of internal medicine, and friend of King Ning. He once studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and learned how to use pens by watching Lady Gongsun dance her sword. He is good at Buddhism, Taoism, gods and ghosts, figures, landscapes, birds and beasts, vegetation, pavilions, etc. He is especially good at Buddhism, Taoism, figures, and mural creation.
The scroll paintings made by Wu Daozi are also quite rich, such as "The Picture of the King Sending His Son", "Scroll of the Eighty-Seven Immortals", etc. There are many records in historical materials, but a considerable part of them cannot be determined whether they are the authentic works of Wu Daozi. The following are the works that can be verified and are indeed Wu Daozi's works.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Daozi