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Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou () is the name for a group of eight
Chinese painters This is a list of Chinese painters: See also * Chinese calligraphy * Chinese painting * List of calligraphers * Lists of painters {{Asian artists Painters Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese p ...
active in the eighteenth-century, who were known in the
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 ...
for rejecting the orthodox ideas about painting in favor of a style deemed expressive and individualist.Cihai: Page 668. The term was also used because they each had strong personalities at variance with the conventions of their own time. Most of them were from impoverished or troubled backgrounds. Still the term is, generally, more a statement about their artistic style than any social eccentricities. The eight had an influence and association with painters like
Gao Fenghan Gāo Fènghàn (高鳳翰, 1683–1749) was born in Shandong to a minor bureaucrat. He was a painter, poet, and seal-carver, and he later became associated with the Yangzhou school of painters. These painters were known as ''eccentrics'' for the ...
, as well as several others.


The Eight

The generally accepted list is:Cihai: Page 668. Based on Li Yufen's (李玉棻) book 《瓯钵罗室书画目过考》 * Wāng ShìShèn (汪士慎) (1686–1759) * Huáng Shèn (黄慎) (1687–1768) * Lĭ Shàn (李鱓/李鳝) (1686?–1756) * Jīn Nóng (金农) (1687–1764) * Luō Pìn (罗聘) (1733–1799) * Gāo Xiáng (高翔) (1688–1753) * Zhèng Xiè (郑燮), also known as Zhèng BănQiáo (郑板桥) (1693–1765) * Lĭ FāngYīng (李方膺) (1696–1755) Alternate lists include:Cihai: Page 668. Based on Wang Yun's (汪鋆) book 《扬州画苑录》 #Huang Shen, Li Shan, Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Li Fangying,
Gao Fenghan Gāo Fènghàn (高鳳翰, 1683–1749) was born in Shandong to a minor bureaucrat. He was a painter, poet, and seal-carver, and he later became associated with the Yangzhou school of painters. These painters were known as ''eccentrics'' for the ...
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Bian Shoumin Bian Shoumin (Chinese character, Chinese: 边寿民; 1684–1752; original name Bian Weiqi hinese: 边维祺, courtesy name as Yi-gong (颐公) or Jian-seng (漸僧), sobriquet as Weijian Laoren (苇间老人, or "Old man among Reeds"), is a f ...
, Yang Fa #Wang Shishen, Huang Shen, Li Shan, Jin Nong, Luo Pin, Zheng Xie,
Min Zhen Min Zhen (; 1730–?; courtesy name Zheng Zhai 正齋) was a Chinese people, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, who spent most of his life in Hubei. He was noted for painting human figures and doing occasional finger paint ...
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Gao Fenghan Gāo Fènghàn (高鳳翰, 1683–1749) was born in Shandong to a minor bureaucrat. He was a painter, poet, and seal-carver, and he later became associated with the Yangzhou school of painters. These painters were known as ''eccentrics'' for the ...


See also

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Xu Wei Xu Wei (, 1521–1593), other department Qingteng Shanren (), was a Chinese painter, playwright, poet, and tea master during the Ming dynasty. A noted painter, poet, writer and dramatist famed for his artistic expressiveness.Cihai: Page 802. ...
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Yangzhou Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province (Suzhong), East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yan ...


Notes


References

* Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (). Ci hai (). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (), 1979.


External links


Yangzhou University
{{Coord, 32.4008, N, 119.4260, E, source:wikidata, display=title Qing dynasty painters People from Yangzhou