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1. Profile: Ni Zan was a painter and poet in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. The first name was Shen Zi, and later the word Town, named Yunlinzi, Jingmanmin, Fantasy and so on. People from Wuxi, Jiangsu. Ni Zan is rich and knowledgeable, which has existed since ancient times. Celebrities from all directions often come to you. At the beginning of Yuan Shundi's reign, he suddenly spent money like water, wandering around Taihu Lake.
2. Painting achievements: Ni Zan is good at landscapes, bamboo stones and dead wood. Among them, he used a typical technique-folding in landscape painting. He is a representative painter of landscape painting of Nanzong in Yuan Dynasty, and his works are mainly paper-based ink and wash. His landscape teachers Dong Yuan, Hao Jing, Guan Tong and Li Cheng developed them. Their paintings are unpretentious and their styles are naive and quiet. Most of the works draw mountains and rivers around Taihu Lake, with plain composition and simple scenery, mostly sparse slopes and shallow water. Use a pen to turn the center into a flank, and fold the rocks to draw. The pen is dry and the ink is sparse, and the artistic conception is desolate and ethereal. Simple and elegant style, simple and complex, small and big, lonely outside and rich inside. He is also good at painting ink bamboo, and his painting style is elegant and sparse. There are many poems in this painting. Because of his simplicity, his paintings have been faked for many years, but it is not easy to imitate their depressed and indifferent temperament. In Ni Zan's painting theory, he advocates expressing subjective feelings, and thinks that painting should show the author's "escape from the chest" and not seek the shape ("the so-called servant painter just has no intention, does not seek the shape, and talks to entertain himself"). In the history of painting, he was called Huang, Zhenwu and Wang Meng. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dong Qichang and others held him in high esteem and often put him above the other three. He Ming Liang Jun said: "Yunlin Shu Da ordered no dust." Wang Mian's "Send Lady Yang to the Yunlin" said that Ni Zan "has a room full of toothpicks and books, and colored pens all over Cigarette Cards".
Ni Zan was the most influential painter in Yuan Dynasty. His unpretentious landscape painting style was sought after by masters in Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as Dong Qichang and Shi Tao, who all cited him as the originator. Shi Tao's calligraphy and painting are based on Ni Zan in spirit and style. Ni Zan is also a calligrapher who takes retro as the banner and pursues artistic individualization. Like Zhang Yu and Yang Weiting, he belongs to this era and does not belong to this era. This is the transcendental value of art to the times.
In the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan people divided elegance and vulgarity according to whether they collected his paintings. His painting practice and theoretical viewpoints had a great influence on the painting circles in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and he was still rated as "Top Ten Painters in Ancient China" and listed as a world cultural celebrity by Encyclopedia Britannica.
His paintings include: river bank mountain scenery, bamboo tree wild stone map, hill map, six-man map, water bamboo residence map, pine pavilion map, lion forest map, Xilin meditation room map, quiet creek cold pine map, Qiu Linshan color map, spring rain crescent map, small mangosteen tree map and so on. There are water bamboo residence map, knee rongzhai map, fish village Qiu Ji map, Yushan forest valley map, Song tour map, family letter map, strange stone cluster map, bamboo branch map, Xishan Fairy Hall, frost forest and rocks, etc.