Gao Cen ( Chinese: 高岑), courtesy name as Shanchang or Weisheng, is a famed

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painter active during the Qing Dynasty. A native Hangzhou, he lived in Jinling (now Nanjing) and was one of " Eight Masters of Jinling".

Eight masters of Jinling

At the beginning the Qing dynasty was formed by a group of artists, called Eight masters of Jinling (current Nanjing). Junling was the most important city after Beijing. Many loyal supporters gathered for the foundation of Qing. Eight masters de Janling:

Gong Xian Gong Xian (simplified Chinese: 龚贤; traditional Chinese: 龔賢; pinyin: ''Gōng Xián''; Wade–Giles: ''Kung Hsien'') (1618–1689; the specific year of birth is disputed as early as 1617 or as late as 1620; born in Kunshan, Jiangsu) was a C ...

, Fan Qi,

Zou Zhe Zou Zhe ( 1636-ca. 1708),Barnhart: Page 267. was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty. Zou was born in Wuxi in Jiangsu province. His courtesy name was Fanglu (方鲁）.Barnhart: Page 381. He lived in Nanjing, and later became known as one of ...

Wu Hong Wu Hong () was a Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), one of the Eight Masters of Nanjing. His years of birth and death are not known. Wu was born in the Jiangxi province. His courtesy name was Yuandu. Wu specialized i ...

, Hu Zao, Gao Cen, Ye Xin and Xie Sun, kept their fidelity mostly to Ming and expressed their feelings in their writings.

Biography

Gao Cen lived for the known part of his life in Nanjing where he was considered as part of «Eight masters of Nanjing» as painter but also poet. He was good at painting flowers and landscapes. Number of his landscapes, as escaped Vision of the stony city, represent surroundings of Jinling. There wasn't found the method of ink accumulation by

; he used rather traditional linear methods. He was gifted for the drawing of outlines and employed job magnificently in the dry brush for the shade. Unlike Gong, most of his writings were accomplished in colour on silk.

Museums

* Beijing (Museum of the imperial palace): ** ''Vision fugitive of the stony city'', section of a portable roll, inks and colour on silk, 36,3x701,8 cm * Berlin ** ''Paintings of landscapes'', dated from 1672, ink and colours on paper, album of twelve canvases according to the masters Song and Yuan, inscription of the painter on the last canvas.

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