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THE ROOTS OF LINGNAN SCHOOL

 

The Qing dynasty closed China to maritime trade in 1757, just at the moment when European nations were expanding their international commerce. Guangzhou (Canton) was the only legal port for trade between China and the outside world until 1843. This southeastern region, which includes modern Guangdong province, was commonly referred to as Lingnan, and produced some of the most important political thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who advocated replacing the imperial system with a constitutional monarchy, and Sun Yat-sen, who established China's first republic in 1911.
 
 The development of a Cantonese manner of painting began in the nineteenth century, but did not attain national visibility and a distinctive style until the first part of the twentieth century. The leader of the Lingnan School of painting was Gao Jianfu (1879-1950?), who joined the Alliance Society (Tongmeng hui), founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1905 to overthrow the emperor. After 1911 he devoted himself instead to a revolution in art. In his painting, publications, and teaching, he promoted the development of a New National Painting (xin guohua). He and his followers, most notably his younger brother GAO Qifeng, combined the local style with elements of Western and Japanese realist painting to create an art that they hoped would be more accessible to the citizenry of China's new republic than the literati painting of the past.

 

The Roots and Branches of the Lingnan school of Painting

Song guangbao and meng jinyi
  ( Center China bird and flower painters brought to Canton in retinue of  imperial government official,  first half of 19th century

 

JU LIAN    JU CHAO  
 ( 1827 - 1904 )
 ( Innovative professional flower painter and teacher of these artists around 1900 )

                  

GAO JIAN-FU 1987-1951                        GAO QI-FENG 1889-1935                     CHEN SHU-REN 1883-1949

                                        

The three founders of the Lingnan School Study in Japan, 1906-1911, and participate in Republican Revolution of 1911.

  

GAO JIAN-FU

1987-1951

Disciples at Spring Slumber Studio
    in Canton, 1924-1937

GAO QI-FENG

1889-1935

Disciples at Heavenly Breeze

Pavilion in Canton, 1929-1935

CHEN SHU-REN 1883-1949

    In China Hong Kong, Taiwan & Overseas

In China Hong Kong & Overseas

one direct Follower

GUAN SHAN-YUE

LI XIONG-CAI

FANG REN-DING

SU WON-ONG

LI FU-HONG

Ven. Hiu Wan

SITU QI

YANG SHAN-HEN

HUANG SHAO-QIANG

CHAO SHAO-ANG

HANG HUAN-WU

BAO SHO-YOU

ZHANG KUN-YI

ZHOU YI-FENG

HO QI-YUAN

YEH SHAO PIN

 

Low Chun-Jo

 

                                                                                       

                   

 

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