Talk:Wu Daozi

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My Encyclopedia Americana mentions an eighth-century Buddhist painter named Wu Tao-Tzu. It lists him as living from 700 to 770 though. Is it the same guy or a different one?--T. Anthony (talk) 18:43, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

The same person, I guess. This website states that his dates of birth and death are 685 and 785,and this [1]:680～795.--Ice Sea (talk) 11:22, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

This needs some citation. Will Durant in his Our Oriental Heritage has his end myth slightly different (i.e., that the artist drew a cave that he then stepped into), and provides a number of other examples of his work being seen as inspired by divinity, either because of the infused spirit of the work itself or because of the way it is created: e.g., crowds would gather to see the finishing of one of his murals because he was so kinetic, or he went on a tour and came back without any paintings, only to say he could now paint hundreds of the scenes from memory. Halavais (talk) 04:12, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Work exists or not?

One paragraphs say some of his work survives today. Another paragraph says none do.

Which is it?--23.119.204.117 (talk) 04:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)