Li Tang (painter)

Li Tang
Wind in the Pines Among a Myriad Valleys (1124)
Born	ca.1050 China
Died	1130
Nationality	Chinese
Known for	Painting
Movement	Southern Song Dynasty

Li Tang (Chinese: 李唐; pinyin: Lǐ Táng; Wade–Giles: Li T'ang, courtesy name Xigu 晞古; c. 1050 – 1130)^[1] was a Chinese landscape painter who practised at Kaifeng and Hangzhou during both the Northern Song and Southern Song dynasty. He forms a link between earlier painters such as Guo Xi, Fan Kuan and Li Cheng and later artists such as Xia Gui and Ma Yuan. He perfected the technique of "axe-cut" brush-strokes and his style of painting became for what is regarded as the academy-style landscape of the Southern Song.^[2]