Your photo as a Tang court painting on silk
Chinese figure painting of the Tang dynasty, around AD 750: a fine ink line, flat colour, and bare silk for a background. Erafy paints you that way, whole, head to feet.
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What a Tang court painting was
At the Tang court of the seventh to ninth centuries, painters recorded palace life in ink and mineral colour on silk: ladies at their mirrors, grooms with horses, women pounding silk. Almost none survive as originals; most Tang paintings are copies made in the Song dynasty.
The outline comes first, a fine even line that neither swells nor tapers; the colour is filled inside it afterwards, flat and opaque: vermilion, azurite, malachite, ochre. There is no light, no shadow and no background. The silk is left bare, and the figures stand on nothing. Size follows rank, not distance.
Erafy paints you on such a panel, whole from head to feet and turned a little aside, since nobody in these pictures looks out of them. Long hair is piled high; short hair goes under a soft black head-cloth. A face here is painted to the workshop's own calm pattern, so what can carry over is the set of the brows, the line of the nose, the jaw, a beard and the colour of the hair. The silk has darkened to a warm tan.
With Situation on, you might be at a game of double sixes, on a spring ride with your household, or at a wedding with a cup of wine. The crafts page lists all twenty crafts.
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Questions
Are the Tang paintings in museums the originals?
Mostly not. Almost nothing from the Tang court survives as an original. Most of the paintings known under Tang names are copies made in the Song dynasty, and the attributions are treated with suspicion.
Why is there no background in a Tang court painting?
Because the manner painted people, not places. The outline is drawn in ink, the colour is filled in flat, and the silk around the figures is left bare: no floor, no room, no sky, no shadow. A figure stands on nothing, and a picture of the court is people, arranged.
What would I look like in a Tang court painting?
Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.
