Hong Ren, who is also known as Hongren, ( Chinese: 弘仁; 1610–1663) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and painter of the early

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

and a member of the

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

(or Xin'an) school of painting. His birth name was Jiang Fang. After the fall of the

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...

, he became a monk, as did his artistic contemporaries, Zhu Da, Shitao, and

Kun Can Kun Can (髡殘) (1612 to after 1674) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and painter during Ming and Qing dynasties. He hailed from Hunan, but spent most of his life in Nanjing. He became a Chan Buddhist monk at an early age and in Nanjing was abbot of ...

. They protested the fall of the Ming dynasty by becoming monks. Hong Ren's style has been said to " epresentthe world in a dematerialized, cleansed version ... revealing his personal peace through the liberating form of geometric abstraction."

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China-on-site.com brief summaryHongren on the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Internet Site
1610 births 1664 deaths 17th-century Chinese painters Buddhist artists Chinese Zen Buddhists Ming dynasty Buddhist monks Ming dynasty painters Qing dynasty Buddhist monks Qing dynasty painters {{China-painter-stub