Study on the changes of pen and ink in Song Dynasty landscape painting

Abstract

As the peak of the development of Chinese landscape painting, the Song Dynasty not only had its own innovation in brush and ink techniques, but also had a profound impact on the inheritance of subsequent generations. Under the influence of different social development and economic condition artists of the Northern Song (960-1127) and Southern Song (1127-1279) used various brush and ink techniques, the study of which allows to expand the understanding of the processes of evolution of landscape painting in China as a whole.