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Li Sixun (651–716 ) was a Chinese noble and painter of landscapes who lived during the
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dyn ...
. According to ''
Encyclopædia Britannica
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'', he is considered by
Dong Qichang
Dong Qichang (; courtesy name Xuanzai (玄宰); 1555–1636), was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, politician, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty.
Life as a scholar and calligrapher
Dong Qichang was a native of Hua Ting (l ...
to be the founder of the
Northern school
East Mountain Teaching () denotes the teachings of the Fourth Ancestor Dayi Daoxin, his student and heir the Fifth Ancestor Daman Hongren, and their students and lineage of Chan Buddhism.
''East Mountain Teaching'' gets its name from the East ...
of landscape painting.
As a member of the royal family, he had the honorary title of general. His son
Li Zhaodao
Li, li, or LI may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
* Landscape Institute, a British professional body for landscape architects
* Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia, US, that teaches "political t ...
was also a painter and so the father is distinguished as General Li Senior or the Elder.
He used brightly coloured mineral
pigment
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s, especially
azurite
Azurite is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. During the early 19th century, it was also known as chessylite, after the Type locality (geology), type locality at Chessy, Rhône, Chessy-les-Mines near ...
blue and
malachite
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu2CO3(OH)2. This opaque, green-banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in fractures ...
green. His technique was meticulous and detailed so that large works such as
mural
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Word mural in art
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s might take months to complete.
References
651 births
716 deaths
Tang dynasty painters
Tang dynasty government officials
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