Wu Zhen (1280—1354), whose real name is Gui Zhong, is from Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Painter, calligrapher and poet in Yuan Dynasty.
Zhenwu is good at painting landscapes, plum blossoms and bamboo stones, and is called "Yuan Sijia" with Huang, Ni Zan and Wang Meng.
brief introduction
Zhenwu learned the most from Dong Yuan and Ju Ran. Actually, Dong Yuan and Ju Ran are not literati painters, but because they live in the south of the Yangtze River and represent the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, they have created a simple and innocent style of landscape painting, which just shows the charm of landscape, which is what literati painters dreamed of after the Song Dynasty.
Starting from Mi Fei, Dong Ju's painting style began to be favored and extended to Zhao Mengfu and Yuan Sijia. Dong Ju's painting style is highly respected, and most landscape painting circles in the Yuan Dynasty rely on Dong Ju, striving to achieve no rhyme. Zhenwu has made great efforts on Dong Ju. He himself said: "Dong Yuan's" Heavy Pavilion and Cold Forest Map "is vigorous and powerful, which is rare in the world. Because it is the original, it must be copied. "