_Wu Tao-tz[)u]_, also called _Wu Tao-yuean_. Born in Honan toward the
end of the eighth century. His influence was felt in Japanese art
as well as in that of China. 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.