k'ai-chih

Updated: May 13, 2025

To call the great vital art of the Liang, Chen, Wei, and Tang dynasties a development out of the exquisitely refined and exhausted art of the Han decadence from which Ku K'ai-chih is a delicate straggler is to call Romanesque sculpture a development out of Praxiteles. Between the two some thing has happened to refill the stream of art. It is indifferent.

Clive Bell - Art