), and later developed into a set of religious practices.Currently Taoism is considered a "living religion, practiced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and many overseas Chinese communities, and one that is undergoing a major revival in mainland China today.” p. 13 

An exhibition called "Taoism and the Arts of China", presented at The Chicago Institute of Art (2000) emphasized the art of the late Han to Qing dynasties and followed "the transformations of Taoism into an organized religion, the Taoist pantheon of gods who inhabit the stars and the heavens, modes of ritual and visualization, the cult of the immortals, and the role of landscape as a symbol of cosmic structure and process.”

Taoist landscape paintings often depict the virtues of the natural world as examples for man.