![]() ![]() ![]() Wu Daozi is recorded as having painted a wide variety of subjects, perhaps painting large wall compositions of essentially Buddhist characters more than anything else. all his life and his abundant works had a wide range of subjects. Wu used only one day to paint the landscape on the wall depicting the 300-kilometer-long scenery along the river. ![]() Another has it that a painter found one of the last surviving murals of Wu Daozi and learned to imitate the style. He was best known for his unrestrained style and superb skills. He then destroyed the wall, possibly by pushing it into a river, to ensure that no one else could learn the same secrets. The contemporary Swedish writer Sven Lindqvist meditates on this legend and the challenge that it poses to modern aesthetics in his book, The Myth of Wu Tao-Tzu. Who was wu daozi and what was his concept of painting ![]()
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