Influences of Daoist Philosophy in Chinese Landscape Painting during the Song Dynasty

摘要

This dissertation tries to demonstrate how Daoist philosophy had influenced Chinese landscape painting. Based on the most important Daoist treaties, the author has the purpose to point up and analyze some of the principles of Daoism -such as the notion of Dao, naturalness, the non-action, qi, yin-yang and the emptiness- to recognize them in several important paintings, especially from the Song dynasty. With a selection of paradigmatic landscape paintings of the most recognized Chinese artists, this dissertation exposes the iconographic archetype of Chinese landscape painting. Results show that Chinese landscape painters do not try to impose on nature the order conceived by humans.