陆探微

陸探微
Lù Tànwēi
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Lu Tanwei, 5th-century painter of the Liu Song dynasty, ranked first among painters by Xie He

Examples

HSK 5
Lù Tànwēi shì Náncháo de huàjiā.
Lu Tanwei was a painter of the Southern Dynasties.
HSK 5
Xiè Hè zài 《 Gǔhuà pǐnlù 》 lǐ bǎ Lù Tànwēi pái zài dìyī.
In his Record of the Classification of Old Painters, Xie He ranked Lu Tanwei first.

Tips

history
None of his paintings survive. A Tang critic wrote that 张僧繇 caught the flesh of his figures, 陆探微 the bone and 顾恺之 the spirit. He is also credited with a one-stroke manner in which the brush line runs on without a break.

Stroke Order

陆 lù
探 tàn
微 wēi