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THE ART OF LINGNAN MASTER
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JU LIAN |
JU CHU | GAO
JIAN-FU | GAO
QI-FENG | CHEN
SHU-REN |
CHAO SHAO-ANG |
GUAN SHAN-YUE |
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LI XIONG-CAI |
YANG SHAN-SHEN |
Henry Wo |
AU HO NIEN |
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Ju Lian |
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Ju
Lian, alias Guquan, was a native Panyu. He was a bird-and-flower
painter emphasized on observation and sketching of objects in
nature. Ju specialized in the application of the innovative
technique of "zhuangshui" (water infusion) and "zhuangfen" (powder
infusion) to create a vivid, rich and bright palette. These four
hanging scrolls that conveying the beauties of nature, reveal the
distinguish style of Ju Lian. The vivid depiction of insects and
delicate compositions of flowers and rocks suggest a mood of
rhythmic vitality and create a lively scene of Guangdong garden.
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Ju Chao |
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The painter
in the Qing Dynasty, a native of Panyu,GuangDong province,the
brother of Ju Lian.His style name was Mei Sheng and his sobriquet
was Mei Chao.He was talented in painting flowers and insects.
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Gao Jianfu |
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Gao Jianfu began
studying with a prominent local artist, Ju Lian, in Keshan,
Guangdong at the age of fourteen. He learned under his master's
tutelage to paint flowers, plants, and insects in a subtle and
highly naturalistic manner. Immediately before he executed this set
of paintings Gao Jianfu began what was to become an important period
of experimentation. These scrolls, then, with the delicate beauty of
their vegetal subjects, sum up his early career. In particular, they
retain the mogu, or boneless, techniques of Ju Lian, especially his
methods of applying water and powdered pigment directly to the
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Gao Qifeng |
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Gao Jianfu younger
brother, Qifeng, accompanied him to Japan, where the younger man
studied the art of Japanese realism, or Nihonga. This painting, with
its combination of Western naturalism and Japanese decorative style,
is a superb example of the manner he learned in Japan. |
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Chen Shu-Ren |
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Chen Shu-Ren,
whose original name was Shao, alias Nianhua-weixiaozi, Dean-laoren
and Ershan-shanqiao, was born at Mingjing Village of Panyu District
in the Guangdong Province. At the age of seventeen, he studied
painting under Ju Lian, the great flower painter of Guangdong. Later
he went to Japan twice for further study. In 1906 he entered the
Kyoto Art Academy, and in 1913 he studied for the degree of the
Bachelor of Arts at the Rikkyo University, Tokyo. Chen is well-known
for his bird-and-flower, landscape and animal paintings. Though the
influence of his teacher and the style of Nihonga can still be seen
in some of his earlier works, ............ |
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Chao Shao-Ang |
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Chao Shao-Ang is a
native of Guangzhou, Guangdong. He founded the Lingnan Art Studio in
Guangzhou. In 1937 he served as the head of the Department of
Chinese Painting at the Guangzhou Municipal College of Fine Arts and
in 1948 as a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Guangzhou
University. He excels in painting landscapes, animals, flowers,
insects and fish and is particularly noted for painting cicadas. He
is a representative painter of the Lingnan School. His paintings
have been exhibited on many occasions in the United States,
Singapore, Germany and other countries and he has been granted
various awards. |
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Guan Shanyue |
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Guan Shanyue (1912, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province) graduated from
Guangzhou Municipal Teachers Training College in 1933. His early
work consisted of sketches made in Southwestern and Northwestern
China as well the coastal provinces along the Eastern seaboard.
During the war, he was engaged in anti-Japanese activities in Macao
and Hong Kong. After 1949, he taught for many years, and became a
prominent representative of the "Lingnan School". In 1959, he
cooperated in work for the Great Hall of the People. In 1979, the
painting reproduced as a poster below was also added to the Great
Hall of the People. |
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Li Xiong-Cai |
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A native of Gaoyao,
Guangdong, he studied painting under Gao Jianfu at the Spring
Slumber Art Studio in his young age. He had also studied sketch and
later went to Japan and studied Japanese painting at the Tokyo Arts
College. In the 1940s, he toured to Guangxi, Sichuan and the
Northwest regions, where he got much inspirations from the scenery
there. Li had taught at the National Arts College. In 1978, he was
appointed deputy director and head of the Chinese Painting
Department of the Guangzhou Arts College and he is now the advisor
of the college. He is also elected a director of the Chinese Artists
Society and deputy director of the Chinese Artists Association,
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Ven. Hiu Wan |
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Ven. Hiu Wan
was awarded the Cultural Prize in 1997 by the Executive Yuan, the
nation's highest honor for personal achievement.
Aside from being a distinguished
artist, she is a also renowned for her scholarship in Buddhism,
literary merit as a poet, her tireless devotion to education, and,
above all, a dedicated practitioner of Prajna Ch'an Buddhism
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Yang Shan-hen |
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Yang Shan-hen is
one of the most representative artists of the second generation of
the Lingnan School of Painting. Specialized in bird and flower,
figure, landscape painting and excelled in calligraphy, he is
open-minded to adopt the strength of archaic and modern, the Eastern
and Western painting techniques. His paintings are therefore
considered not entirely conformed to the original direction of the
School. He establishes his own style by the application of dry
textural strokes. |
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Au Ho-Nien |
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Au Ho-Nien is a
new-generation representative of the Lingnan School. It was founded
during the early Qing Dynasty around the southeastern parts of
China. The shui-mo (water-ink) painters adopted the brushwork in
traditional Chinese painting and introduced the use of colors from
the western art. Hence, a new style of shui-mo painting was created.
Au, after having practiced Chinese painting for years, realized the
importance of space. His sophisticated exertion on the contrast
between filled parts and space has broadened the whole outlook for
shui-moi painting. Besides, the education of classical literature
and calligraphy given by his father made him an excellent poet. His
paintings are a combination of pictorial art and belle-letters..... |
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Henry Wo |
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A subtle fusing of
influences drawn from the East and the West softly permeates Wo
paintings. He combines his strong heritage of Chinese brushwork and
principles with his free translucent washes, punctuated with
delicate linear accents and birds, fish and flowers. Ethereal light
bathes his pictures and gives his work a quivering life. A native of
China, who studied art at his early years in China and Hong Kong
with Prof. Chao Shao-An. He migrated into the United States and
settled in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and five children in
1975. His paintings have been exhibited in Canada, Australia, and
throughout the Orient and the United States. |
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