Why was art important to the legacy of the Song dynasty? What supported the development of these pursuits?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Interest in the arts supported by wealth of Song dynasty
1. prosperity paid for intellectual and artistic achievement
2. there was money and enthusiasm for patronage of artists
a. the Huidzung emperor, who was an accomplished painter himself,
founded a school of painting and expanded the palace gallery to
exhibit paintings and ceramics
b. painting of the era has always attracted special admiration
1. it was prolific and technically excellent
2. it specialized in scenes from the natural world
3. art showed the maturity of the civilization
a. admiration for the beauty of nature, untouched by human hands,
is, perhaps, a measure of the maturity of a civilization
b. the natural world was a book of lessons about humankind and
from which they could make comparisons about human nature
c. every subject for a painting demanded long meditation in which
the artist strove to understand the essence of what he was going
to paint
d. Su Dongpo (1036–1101 ) painted virtually nothing but bamboo,
because its fragility suggested human weakness
e. Li Longmian (1049–1106 ) favored gnarled trees, defying
weather, as symbols of the resilience of the sages
f. Mi Fei (1051–1107 ) perfected the representation of mist—which
is the breath of nature, with power to shape the image, like the
spiritual dimension of human beings
g. they produced some of the world's most influential, most imitated
images
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