Zong Bing

Zong Bing (Chinese: 宗炳; Wade–Giles: Tsung Ping, 375-444, style name Shaowen 少文) was a Chinese artist and musician who wrote the earliest text on landscape painting. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”

References

• Leon Hurvitz 'Tsung Ping's Comments on Landscape Painting' Artibus Asiae, Vol. 32, No. 2/3 (1970), pp. 146–156
• Bush, S. (1983) Tsung Ping's Essay on Painting Landscape and "Landscape Buddhism" of Mount Lu. In S. Bush & C. Murick, C. (Ed), Theories of the arts in China (pp. 132–164). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.