"Cao clothes out of the water" is a style in painting, and it is a concept opposite to "Five Dynasties". "A grass comes out of water" means that the Buddha statue seems to be wearing very thin and close-fitting clothes, and the lines depicting the lines of the clothes are numerous and dense, and the overall feeling is like the effect of wet clothes coming out of water.
It is a different expression of the folds of two kinds of clothes in painting. The former is dull and heavy, and the clothes of the characters are close to the body, as if they had just come out of the water; The latter's brushwork is round and elegant, and the clothes painted by figures are like the wind.
"Wu takes advantage of the wind, Cao clothes come out of the water" refers to the description of two styles of clothing patterns initiated by Cao, a painter in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Wu Daozi, a painter in the Tang Dynasty. Both of these styles belong to the category of religious art, which comes from Guo's Cao Wu Painting Theory in Song Dynasty.
Painter Wu Daozi:
Wu Daozi (about 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and his painting history was regarded as a saint. Han nationality, from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). Born around 680 AD (the first year of Yonglong), he died around 758 AD (the first year of Gan Yuan).
Lonely and poor, you will have a painting name when you are young. He used to be the county commandant of Qiu Yan (now Ziyang), and soon resigned. After that, he settled in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation.
During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the DPRK for his good painting, and successively 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.