In the twenty-first year of Chenghua (1485), he won the first place in the senior high school entrance examination of Suzhou Prefecture and entered the government school. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, he won the first place in Tianfu after having obtained the provincial examination (Xie Yuan) and went to Beijing to take the examination. In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, he was involved in the fraud case of Xu Jing's examination hall, was sentenced to prison and demoted to a petty official in Zhejiang and Francisco. From then on, he lost his enterprising spirit, wandered around the rivers and lakes, and was buried in poetry and painting.
Li Tang and Liu Songnian, which belong to the patriarchal clan system of landscape painting, integrate the North and South painting schools, with meticulous brushwork, sparse arrangement and elegant and handsome style. Portrait painters inherit the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, beautiful posture and accurate modeling; He is also a freehand brushwork figure, and his pen is concise and interesting.
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On the one hand, Tang Yin's artistic achievement lies in breaking the stereotype, accepting both the North-South School of Painting, the Southern Song Dynasty Academy Painting and the Yuan Dynasty literati landscape painting, mainly learning the Southern Song Dynasty and Liu Songnian Academy Painting School, and learning the rigorous and vigorous painting style of the Song Dynasty.
At the same time, he participated in Xia Gui's composition and pen and ink techniques, extensively dabbled in Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, Guo He, Huang and Wang Meng in the Northern Song Dynasty, and gradually formed his own style.
The layout of the picture is rigorous and orderly, the shape is real and vivid, the mountains are majestic, the rocks are steep, the axe is chopped, the brushwork is vigorous, and the pen and ink are dripping.