What's the difference between Dunhuang murals in Tang Dynasty and those in Song Dynasty? How to distinguish?

Is different. Dunhuang murals are world cultural heritage and world-famous artistic treasures. They are famous for their diverse contents, bright colors, rich shapes and profound meanings, and are called "museums on the wall". The Tang Dynasty is the most prosperous dynasty in the history of China, and the murals created by the Tang Dynasty are more unique and exquisite. What are the artistic features of Dunhuang murals in Tang Dynasty? The so-called Dunhuang murals refer to paintings painted on the inner wall of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. Mogao grottoes were built in the pre-Qin period of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, that is, in the middle and late 4th century. At that time, Buddhism was introduced into China through the Silk Road, and gradually made brilliant achievements. Among them, Monk Le Zun dug the first hole on the cliff as a place to practice and worship Buddha.

Later, monk Fa Liang also came here and dug a second hole, which was named "Mogao Grottoes" because it was located at the top of the desert. Because the word "Mo" was mixed with the word "Mo" at that time, and it also took the meaning of "respecting Buddha to create morality and not digging holes", it was gradually called "Mogao Grottoes". In this way, other monks began to follow their predecessors and continue to build caves around them. Especially in the Northern Wei and Western Wei Dynasties, because princes and nobles believed in Buddhism, they spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to build grottoes and draw murals.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains was prosperous, the western regions were stable, and the Silk Road was extremely prosperous. Countless businessmen from Central Asia and West Asia entered Chang 'an through Hexi Corridor, and they brought cultures from all over the West to Dunhuang. Therefore, the Mogao Grottoes in the Tang Dynasty developed rapidly, and there were more than 1 0,000 grottoes in the Wu Zetian period. The murals in the cave have also become more colorful. Dunhuang murals are a special kind of painting in the final analysis, and of course they follow the basic elements of painting art. Therefore, to understand the artistic characteristics of Dunhuang murals in Tang Dynasty, we can deconstruct and appreciate them from the aspects of lines, shapes, composition and colors.

Line is the most basic element in China's paintings, because the brush is the most commonly used special writing tool in ancient China, and the priority when writing with the brush is the most important thing to pay attention to, so as to create lines with different thicknesses. Therefore, the ancients in China were extremely sensitive to the lines themselves, which can be seen in China's meticulous paintings and landscape paintings.