Ren Xiong (; July 19, 1823 – November 23, 1857) was a Chinese painter from
Xiaoshan
Xiaoshan is one of ten urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, East China. Xiaoshan was formerly a city in its own right, separated by the Qiantang River from Hangzhou proper, but the municipal ...
,
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...
, active during the late
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 ...
. Ren belonged to the
Shanghai School
''Haipai'' (, Shanghainese: ''hepha'', ; literally "hangai style") refers to the avant-garde but unique "East Meets West" culture from Shanghai in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is a part of the culture of Shanghai.
Etymology
The term was coin ...
in Chinese painting and is known for his bold and innovative style.
His brother was the painter
Ren Xun
Ren Xun (; ca. 1835–1893) was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty.
Ren was born in Xiaoshan in Zhejiang province. Ren came from a family of artists, his brother was Ren Xiong. His paintings were primarily of human figures, done in the ...
.
According to the scholar Meccarelli, the particular definition of pictorial
naturalism, might result from contacts established with the art of photography, rather than a “simple” assimilation of Western painting techniques and models.
[Meccarelli M., Foo Y., Flamminii A]
and the West in the Art of the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural and Historical Review of the Relations between Painting and Photography"
''Ming Qing Studies'' 2013, pp. 117-160
Paintings
File:Mjmhg009-renxiong.jpg, ''After the poems of Da Mei''
File:Ren xiong 1.jpg, (title not known)
File:Ren Xiong - The Goddess of the Luo River.jpg, ''The Goddess of the Luo River''
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1823 births
1857 deaths
Artists from Hangzhou
Qing dynasty painters
19th-century Chinese painters
Painters from Zhejiang
Chinese male painters
19th-century male artists
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