Born of Gautama Buddha (also known as the picture of the heavenly king sending his son and the picture of the birth of Sakyamuni) is a paper-based ink brush stroke created by Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty according to the Buddhist scripture Ruiying Benqi Jing, which is a copy of the Song Dynasty. The work is now in the Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Japan.
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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, Shandong Province), 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.
Daozi painted figures, his brushwork turned round, and his clothes fluttered with the wind. Later generations called this style "Five Dynasties Party Style". Similar styles can be seen in the Tang and Song murals in Dunhuang. Similar to Wu Daozi's style, it is also reflected in techniques such as line drawing and blooming.
The orchid paintings in Dunhuang murals are also in the same strain as Wu Daozi's line drawing stunt. The shapes depicted in the popular orchid paintings in the Tang Dynasty are soft outside and rigid inside, thick and strong, delicate and euphemistic.