Complete Collection of Chinese Painting (17), Ming Dynasty. Volume 8

Author: Ancient Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Appraisal Group
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This volume includes 24 painters and 95 works. Although the "Songjiang School" was widely influential, and although Shao Mi, Li Liufang, Bian Wenyu, and others were collectively known as the "Nine Friends of Painting" alongside Dong Qichang, they still demonstrated their individual personalities in their brushwork. Let alone Yun Xiang, Ni Yuanlu, and Yang Wencong. Yun Xiang started with Dong and Ju, simplifying complexity, creating a spare and austere style close to Ni and Huang; Ni Yuanlu infused painting into painting, with an archaic and rustic style; Yang Wencong roamed among Ju Ran and Hui Chong, developing a wild, desolate, and bleak artistic style. During this period, the most prominent painter was Lan Ying, who pioneered the "Wulin School." He excelled in all aspects of painting, studying landscape painting under Guo Xi, "the Two Mi," Li Tang, Ma Da, and Xia Gui, with particular influence from Huang Gongwang and Shen Zhou. This cultivated his profound skills and ability to transform and abstractly combine objects, creating a rather unique type of landscape painting for the late Ming dynasty. Due to the limitations of his education, Lan Ying's achievements did not surpass those of the "Wumen School" or the "Songjiang School," but his talent for exaggerated forms and abstract combinations inspired later painters Chen Hongshou and Yu Zhidong. However, their achievements were in the realm of figure painting.