Personal profile of Yuan Wang Meng Qiushan Thatched Cottage Tu

Wang Meng (1308-1385) was a Yuan painter. His courtesy name was Shuming, his name was Xiangguang Jushi, and he was a native of Huzhou (now Wuxing, Zhejiang). My grandfather Zhao Mengfu, my grandmother Duan Sheng, my uncle Zhao Yong, and my cousin Zhao Yanzheng were all famous painters in the Yuan Dynasty. Wang Meng's landscape paintings were directly influenced by Zhao Mengfu. Later, he learned from Wang Wei, Dong Yuan, Ju Ran and others, and synthesized a new style. Wang Mengneng is a poet and calligrapher. He is especially good at painting landscapes, and he was taught by his maternal ancestor Zhao Mengfu. He took Dong Yuan and Ju Ran as his ancestors and became his own style. The scenery is densely painted, with multiple mountains and rivers in the layout, and good use of cracks and moss spots to express the lush and vast atmosphere of the forest. In addition to landscapes, he is also a person. His works had a great influence on landscape painting in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, second only to Huang Gongwang. Later generations called him, Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, and Ni Zan the "Four Yuan Painters".