
Wu Zhen (painter) - Wikipedia
Wu Zhen (simplified Chinese: 吴镇; traditional Chinese: 吳鎮; pinyin: Wú Zhèn) (courtesy name: Zhonggui 仲圭; art name: Meihuadaoren 梅花道人) (1280–1354 C.E.) was a Chinese painter during the Yuan dynasty. [1] . He was best known for being one of the Four Masters of the Yuan. [2] He was born in Weitang (now known as Chengguan).
Wu Zhen – China Online Museum
2015年3月3日 · Wu Zhen (吳鎮, 1280–1354) was a painter during the Yuan dynasty. His courtesy name is Zhonggui (仲圭) and pseudonym Meihua Daoren (梅花道人, Daoist of the plum blossom). Wu Zhen is regarded as one of the Four Masters of the Yuan (元四家), along with Huang Gongwang (黃公望, 1269–1354), Ni Zan (倪瓚, 1301–1374), and Wang Meng (王蒙, 1308–1385).
Wu Zhen | Ming Dynasty, Landscape Art, Calligraphy, & Facts
Wu Zhen (born 1280, Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China—died 1354) was one of the group of Chinese painters later known as the Four Masters of the Yuan, or Mongol, dynasty (1206–1368). His fame derives particularly from his incorruptible life as a …
Wu Zhen | Fisherman | China - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Wu Zhen (Chinese, 1280–1354) Period: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) Date: ca. 1350. Culture: China. Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper. Dimensions: Image: 12 1/4 × 21 3/16 in. (31.1 × 53.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 13 1/4 in. × 11 ft. 4 1/2 in. (33.7 × 346.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Wu Zhen, Fishermen, after Jing Hao - Smarthistory
The artist Wu Zhen (1280–1354) is known as one of the Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). Although well educated, he never attempted to become a government official. Scholar hermits as fishermen boating on a river is one of Wu’s favorite painting themes.
focusing on Wu Zhen's poetic inscriptions on paintings, both his own and those of past masters, and argues that inscriptions and colophons are an essential key to understanding literati art. Wu Zhen's family background is difficult to ascertain, since only very limited accounts of his life can be found in Yuan period sources.5 Sun Zuo
Wu Zhen | Bamboo, old tree, and rock - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This painting shows Wu Zhen's creative adaptation of the "old tree, bamboo, and rock" genre first canonized by eleventh-century scholar-artists. The painting's large scale and use of overlapping forms and graded ink tones to create an illusion of recession, and of rich, wet ink to evoke the appearance of foliage after a drenching rain, recall ...
Wu Zhen: Manual of Ink Bamboo – China Online Museum
2016年10月9日 · The National Palace Museum in Taipei presents Wu Zhen’s Manual of Ink Bamboo (吳鎮墨竹譜). Wu Zhen , a native of Jiaxing (south of Shanghai and Suzhou), was good at poetry and prose while excelling at painting and calligraphy, becoming known as one of the Four Yuan Masters, which also include Huang Gongwang , Ni Zan , and Wang Meng .
Wu Zhen | Crooked Pine - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wu Zhen, whose self-adopted names include Zhonggui, Plum-blossom Daoist, Plum Daoist, and Plum Monk, was a native of Jiaxing [in Zhejiang]. He was one of the four masters of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). He died in the fourteenth year of the Zhizheng reign era [1354] at …
Wu Zhen — Google Arts & Culture
Wu Zhen was a Chinese painter during the Yuan Dynasty. He was best known for being one of the Four Masters of the Yuan.