Tsung Ping

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Chinese artist and musician, lived 375-444 CE, and wrote the earliest text on landscape painting. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”

[edit] References

• Leon Hurvitz 'Tsung Ping's Comments on Landscape Painting' Artibus Asiae, Vol. 32, No. 2/3 (1970), pp. 146-156
• Bush, S. (1983) Tsung Ping's Essay on Painting Landscape and "Landscape Buddhism" of Mount Lu. In S. Bush & C. Murick, C. (Ed), Theories of the arts in China (pp. 132-164). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.