Descubre Cui Bai, pintor destacado de la dinastía Song del Norte conocido por obras maestras animales y vegetales como Magpies y Hare y Los pájaros invernales. Explora su legado en el arte chino y su influencia cortesana.
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During Southern and Northern Song dynasties, Chinese ancient paintings achieved unprecedented development and had made significant accomplishments. In early Northern Song Dynasty, the loyal court painter Huang Jucai inherited his father Huang Quan’s painting style of flowers and birds, making exquisite and gorgeous style become the criterion to judge loyal court flower and bird paintings, until the emergence of painters like Cui Bai who broke the dominant position of such criterion. Both Cui Bai and Huang Quan focused on accuracy of sketching and modeling, but Cui Bai added a bit more life joy to the painting. It was such concern about birds’ expression that brought flower and bird paintings into a new stage of development. The artist set the scene in a late autumn field, where a disturbed hare looked back at a pair of whining magpies. Through the hare
