Huang Shen

Huang Shen
Lin Bu appreciates the plum flower by Huang Shen, Nanjing Museum
Traditional Chinese	黃き慎まき
Simplified Chinese	黄き慎まき
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huáng Shèn Wade–Giles Huang Shen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Huang.

Huang Shen (1687–1772) was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty. Huang was born in Ninghua, Fujian province, to a poor family. His courtesy names were Gongshou (恭きょう壽ことぶき) and Gongmao (恭きょう懋). His pseudonym was Yingpiaozi (癭瓢子こ).

He began his training under the painter Shangguan Zhou (上官じょうかん周しゅう). 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 include The Drunk Monk and Shepherd Su Wu.

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  the old holds a musical stone
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  Holding Plum Flower
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  The old in flower viewing

References

• Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞じ海うみ编辑委い员会). Ci hai (辞じ海うみ). Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe (上海しゃんはい辞じ书出版しゅっぱん社しゃ), 1979.

Sources

• Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (73) Oxford ISBN 1-85444-132-9
• National Palace Museum
• China culture.org
• HK artclub