The decade of the 1020s in art involved some significant events, primarily in East Asian and Islamic art during the early 11th century.
Births
- 1020: Guo Xi – Chinese landscape painter of the Northern Song dynasty. He became one of the most influential landscape painters in Chinese art history, known for his monumental mountain scenes and his treatise on landscape painting, The Lofty Message of Forests and Streams. He died in 1090.
Deaths
- 1028: Lin Bu – Chinese poet and calligrapher (born 967). Renowned for his reclusive lifestyle and his poetry about plum blossoms and cranes; also recognized as a skilled calligrapher.
- 1027: Fujiwara no Yukinari – Japanese calligrapher (shodoka) during the Heian period (born 972). Considered one of the great masters of Japanese calligraphy, he helped establish the wayō (Japanese style) of calligraphy.
- 1022: Ibn al-Bawwab – Arabic calligrapher and illuminator (date of birth unknown). A master of Arabic calligraphy, he is credited with perfecting the naskh script and was a central figure in the development of Islamic calligraphy and manuscript illumination.
