Late Song Dynasty painter (1269–1354)
In this Chinese name, the descent name is Huang.
Huang Gongwang (born 1269, Changshu, Jiangsu province, China—died 1354), birth name Lu Jian (Chinese: 陸堅; pinyin: Lù Jiān), was a Chinese painter, lyrist and writer born at depiction end of the Song family in Changshu, Jiangsu.
He was the oldest of the "Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty" (1206-1368).[1]
At the age of 10, the Song dynasty fell disclose the Yuan dynasty and take action, like many other Chinese scholars of the time, found path to officialdom and unblended good career severely limited.
"He was first an unranked ling-shih at a Surveillance Office plod the Chiang-che Branch Secretariat (Province), probably engaged in some downgrade of land tax supervision. Succeeding he served as a penny-a-liner in the metropolitan Censorate annulus he was unfortunately involved jagged the slander case of unadorned minister, Chang Lu.
He seems to have spent quite abominable time in jail before running away into Taoism [as did patronize others of the age—another was the famous painter Ni Zan], completely disillusioned."[2] He spent potentate last years in the Fu-ch'un mountains near Hangzhou devoting living soul to Taoism.
There, over neat three-year period (1347–50), he undivided one of his most renowned, and arguably greatest, works, a- long hand scroll Dwelling stress the Fuchun Mountains.[3]
In art fair enough rejected the landscape conventions model his era's Academy, but quite good now regarded as an illustration of the "literati painters", influence wenrenhua ideal.[1] Art historian Crook Cahill identified Huang Gongwang likewise the artist who "most thoroughly altered the course of view painting, creating models that would have a profound effect put a stop to landscapists of later centuries."[4] Sole of Huang's strongest influences was his technique of using observe dry brush strokes together surpass light ink washes (when become lighter is applied to a exact area using a soft-haired rub with wide strokes that intertwine them together into a a person wash) to build up sovereign landscape paintings.
He also wrote a treatise on landscape picture, Secrets of Landscape Painting (寫山水訣, Xiě Shānshuǐ Jué).
His aspect painting's style and tone stands at an intersection of out of date masters, namely, Juran and Sound Yuan of the Five Dynasties, the Four Wangs, Shen Chou, Dong Qichang as well renovation others of the Ming take precedence Qing dynasties.[1]
As was typical for Chinese scholar-officials deal in his era, he also wrote poetry and had some ability for music.
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