Person

Li Tang

Chinese landscape painter

b. 1050 CE – d. 1130 CE World The Far East

Li Tang (c. 1050 – 1130) is a Chinese landscape painter who practices at Kaifeng and Hangzhou.

He forms a link between earlier painters such as Guo Xi, Fan Kuan and Li Cheng and later artists such as Xia Gui and Ma Yuan.

He perfects the technique of "ax-cut" brushstrokes.