At the beginning of Tang Dynasty, lacquer painting and brick carving, which were popular since Wei and Jin Dynasties, were no longer popular, which made a transition for the prevalence of independent landscape painting, figure painting and flower-and-bird painting since Sui Dynasty.
In calligraphy, there are many kinds of fonts in parallel, forming four schools of Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Sui Suiliang and Xue Ji in the early Tang Dynasty, which laid a solid cultural foundation for the calligraphy statute law after the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Xu's cursive script is also very popular. When I arrived in Tang Wenzong, I was called "Three Musts" together with Li Bai's poems and Pei Wenjian's dance.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with the prosperity of poetry and music, Chinese painting also ushered in an unprecedented period of prosperity.
Figure painting is the most prominent, with Yan as the representative figure (Bu, the map of emperors in previous dynasties, the map of heroes in Lingyange, the map of tribute and the map of admonition), and its works have the significance of genre painting. Wu Daozi ("Born of Gautama Buddha" and "Vimalakīrti") is known as the "Party Style of Wu Dynasty"; Natalie ("Mrs. Youguo Chuntu" and "Tao Ren Tu"); Zhou Fang ("The Picture of Zanhua Ladies" and "The Picture of Sipping Tea").
At the same time, murals have also entered its heyday, such as the tombs of Prince Yide, Prince Zhang Huai, Princess Yongtai and Mogao Grottoes.
From the murals, we can also know that bonsai had entered the court life at that time during the Tang Gaozong period.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, calligraphy was mainly based on copying.
After the middle Tang Dynasty, the development of figure painting entered a stable period, and flower-and-bird painting came from behind, but its achievements were far less than those of figure painting in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, such as Han Han's "Five Cows" and Han Gan's "Wrapping Horses".
Calligraphy has entered a critical period of connecting the preceding with the following. First of all, Huai Su inherited Zhang Xu's cursive script and called it "Zhang Dian Drunkenness". Yan Zhenqing has made great achievements in regular script and running script, among which "Sacrifice to My Nephew" is known as the second running script in the world.
In the late Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan and Yan Zhenqing's regular script was called "Yan Gu".
The green landscape began to enter the palace painting, but it did not develop by leaps and bounds at that time.
The development of calligraphy in the late Tang Dynasty was basically stagnant, and it was ready to transition to the new brushwork in the Song Dynasty. Painting has undergone great changes. Simple figure painting can no longer meet the aesthetic needs of rulers, and figure painting has rapidly evolved into genre painting.
Landscape painting entered the development period, and ink landscape appeared.