He painted landscape, figures and
Buddhist subjects.

_Li Ss[)u]-hsuen_ (651-715 or 720) is considered as the founder of the
Northern School. He appears to have felt the influence which
Buddhist art brought in its train.

_Li Chao-tao_, son of Li Ss[)u]-hsuen, lived at the end of the seventh
and beginning of the eighth centuries. He is said to have varied
from his father's style and even surpassed it.

_Wang Wei_, also called _Wang Mo-k'i_ (699-759), poet, painter and
critic. The great reformer of Chinese landscape painting.
Considered as the founder of the Southern School and the originator
of monochrome painting in Chinese ink.

_Han Kan_, renowned in the period _t'ien-pao_ (742-759). According to
tradition he was a pupil of Wang Wei. His school possessed in the
highest degree knowledge of the form, characteristics and movements
of the horse.

IV. THE SUNG DYNASTY

A.D. 960-1260

_Tung Yuean._ Tenth century. Landscape painter. He worked in both the
Northern and Southern styles.

_Chue Jan_, Buddhist monk. Tenth century. He was at first influenced by
the work of Tung Yuean, but later created an individual style.

_Ma Yuean._ End of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth century.
Member of the Academy of Painting. He was the author of a strong
and vigorous style which characterized the school founded by him.

_Hsia Kuei_ served in the college at Han-Lin in the reign of the
Emperor Ning Tsung (1195-1224). He was considered a master of
chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective.

_Ma Lin_, son of Ma Yuean. Thirteenth century. His work shows that he
painted even more in the tradition of the Southern School than his
father and uncle.

_Li Lung-mien_ or _Li Kung-lin_. Born at Chou in Ngan-huei. He held
public offices, which he resigned in 1100 to retire to the mountain
of Lung-mien, where he died in 1106. Noted for his calligraphy as
well as for his painting. At one time in his life, under religious
influences, he painted a great number of Buddhist figures.

_Mi Fei_ or _Mi Yuean-chang_ or _Mi Nan-kung_ (1051-1107).
Calligraphist, painter and critic. He used strong inking in a style
in which the simplification of monochrome is carried to the
extreme. He had a son, _Mi Yu-Jen_, who painted in his father's
style and lived to