| 内容简介（英文） | Winter plums in a Jar Shen Chou (1427-1509) Ming Dynasty Shen Chou (tzu Ch’i-nan, hao Shih-t’ien and Pai-shih-weng) was a native of Ch’ang-chou in Kiangsu. He was known for his extremely generous nature. An accomplished scholar, he was an able poet, essayist, and calligrapher as well as an excellent painter. His painting repertoire included landscape, flowers and fruits, birds, fish, animals, and figures; all were handled with equal skill. His style was naïve and awkward, his handling of the brush blunt and forceful, the ink thick and heavy; the impression conveyed is one of sincerity, vigor, and fulness. Later critics called him one of the “Four Great Masters of the Ming”, grouping him with Wen Cheng-ming, T’ang Yin, and Ch’iu Ying. His style was pivotal in transforming the calligraphic experiments of the Yuan masters into the more colorful, relaxed idiom of the Ming. |
