Ming Tang Yin Painting Collection

Author: Tang Yin (Ming Dynasty)
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Tang Yin (1470-1523), originally styled Bohu, later changed to Ziwai, styled Liusir Jushi. He was a native of Wuxian, Jiangsu. He passed the provincial examination as the top candidate (Jieyuan). Later, he was implicated in a bribery case in the imperial examination, suffered setbacks in his official career, and also faced family misfortunes. In his later years, he built a "Taohu An" in the northwest of Suzhou City and became famous for selling poetry and paintings. His personal setbacks led him to adopt a unrestrained and hedonistic lifestyle, "free and unrestrained, fond of pleasure and beauty," but in reality, he often vented his frustrations through poetry and painting. Over time, the people of the folk, appreciating his talent and his paintings, and based on rumors, reshaped the image of a romantic and talented Tang Bohu for him. Tang Yin carved an seal "A Romantic and Talented Scholar of Jiangnan," which was well-deserved. He not only had outstanding poetic talent but also unique artistic skills in painting. In addition to elegant landscape paintings, he excelled in portraits, court ladies, and even mythical and historical subjects, with his freehand flower-and-bird paintings being particularly expressive and authentic. His calligraphy, derived from the style of Zhao Mengfu, was outstanding and showed great skill. Moreover, he could compose music, often adopting the forms of folk songs. Such versatility was rare among Ming Dynasty literati. This book is a collection of works by Tang Yin, focusing on Ming Dynasty landscape paintings, flower-and-bird paintings, and figure paintings. Tang Yin, with extraordinary talent and unparalleled skill, excelled in landscape painting but was also proficient in portraits, court ladies, flowers and birds, and bamboo and trees. In painting, he was uniquely creative and stood out from his contemporaries, earning praise from many painting theorists and connoisseurs of his time and later. He was a great painter with exceptional creative ability. The book selects 109 of his outstanding works from his life to delight the readers.