Huang Shen (1687–1772) was a Chinese painter during the

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.Cihai: Page 2054. Huang was born in Ninghua,

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province, to a poor family. His

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s were Gongshou () and Gongmao (). His

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was Yingpiaozi (). He began his training under the painter Shangguan Zhou (). In the earliest part of his career he excelled at cursive calligraphy and favored a meticulous style modelled after

Ni Zan Ni Zan (; 1301–1374) was a Chinese painter during the Yuan and early Ming periods. Along with Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, and Wang Meng, he is considered to be one of the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty. Life Ni Zan was born into a wealth ...

. He became better known as an artistic innovator who was one of the

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. When it came to paintings of people he favored images of religious, historic, and common people. His more famous works include ''The Drunk Monk'' and ''Shepherd Su Wu''. File:老叟執磬圖.jpg, the old holds a musical stone File:捧梅圖.jpg, Holding Plum Flower File:觀花老人圖.jpg, The old in flower viewing

Notes

References

* Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (). Ci hai (). Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe (), 1979.

Sources

*''Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford'' (73)

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1687 births 1772 deaths Qing dynasty painters People from Sanming Painters from Fujian 18th-century Chinese painters {{China-painter-stub