“Art helps us see connections and brings a new coherent meaning to our world”, is what the Tang must have thought as well. Art was a vital part of the Tang dynasty’s culture which impacted several nations including China with this meaning. This means that by creating art we are telling a story without words, which means that through different pieces of what is considered art the Tang created these wordless stories. Paintings were one way the Tang Dynasty presented art. The Tang Dynasty inherited most of their painting ways from the Sui Dynasty, who ruled from 581 to 618. They painted mostly people because of their love of monks, Buddha, and nobles. These were also known as court paintings. Buddhism, Taoism, and literature influenced why. Buddhism …show more content…
Landscape paintings were just as popular as well. When painting landscape paintings one would use mineral colors to create a rich colored effect so one would grasp not only the beauty of nature but the “rhythm of nature”. For most paintings besides landscape ones the artists usually only used subtle colors. Sometimes painters would only use black ink to create a black and white piece of art. These pieces were not only to be shown as something that needed to be colored in, but as something that was complete and honored as one piece of art. Ceramics were another way of representing art. The most popular form of creating ceramics was using sancai which means three colored or colors. The most used colors for making a sancai ceramic piece were brown/yellow, green and white. To make these ceramics they used low fired earthenware, which is a process of making ceramics liquid proof. To make colors for ceramics they mixed metal oxides with lead fluxed glaze. Metal oxide is effect of leaving metal exposed to oxygen or in other words, rust. Lead fluxed glaze is when lead is fluxed or melted to make a glaze. Some types of metal they melted included iron for a brow/yellow or amber color and copper for a green. It is said they usually used ceramics with sancai