Huang Shen
Huang Shen (simplified Chinese: 黄慎; traditional Chinese: 黃慎; pinyin: Huáng Shèn; Wade–Giles: Huang Shen) (1687 - 1772) was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty.[1]
Huang's was born in Ninghua (寧化) Fujian province, to a poor family. His style names were 'Gong shou' (恭壽) and 'Gong Mao" (恭懋). His pseudonym was 'Ying Piaozi' (癭瓢子).[1]
He began his training under the painter Shang Guanzhou (上官周).[1] In the earliest part of his career he excelled at cursive calligraphy and favored a meticulous style modelled after Ni Zan. He became better known as an artistic innovator who was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. When it came to paintings of people he favored images of religious, historic, and common people. His more famous works are The Drunk Monk and Shepherd Su Wu.
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- Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会）. Ci hai （辞海）. Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she （上海辞书出版社）, 1979.
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- Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (73) Oxford ISBN 1-85444-132-9
- National Palace Museum
- China culture.org
- HK artclub
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