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ax stroke

Chinese painting

Also known as: axe-cut texture stroke, fu-p’i ts’un

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Chinese landscape painting

In Chinese painting: Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties
…texture into a broader “ax-cut” texture stroke that subsequently remained a hallmark of most Chinese court academy landscape painting.
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development by Li Tang

In Li Tang
…texture known as the “ax stroke,” which gives a tactile sense to painted rocks and suggests the precise and comprehensive reality that Southern Song artists sought to give their landscapes.
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use in Ma-Xia school

In Ma-Xia school
…of a type called “ax stroke,” for the similarity of its brushstrokes to those left on wood by an ax or chisel. In general there is a preference for angular line expressed in abrupt, staccato brushstrokes.
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