| 内容简介（英文） | Plum and Narcissus Ch’en Shu (1660-1736) Ch’ing Dynasty Ch’en Shu (hao Shang-yuan ti-tzu; later she used the name Nan-lou lao-jen) was a native of Hsiu-shui in Chekiang. She married Ch’ien Lun-kuang of Hai-yen and, because of the fame of their son Ch’ien Ch’en-chun, she was later given the title T’ai-shu-jen. She had a natural love of painting which she applied to flowers and birds, landscapes, figures, and Buddhist and Taoist subjects. Although she painted all types of subjects well, it was particularly in the area of flowers and birds that her talent found expression. She used a combination of the monochrome ink and colored techniques so that her paintings possess both the beauty of color and the restrained elegance of monochrome ink. Her use of the brush, with its forceful but flying rhythms, is related to that of Ch’en Tao-fu. A former critic used the phrase “a strong and robust brush with a spirit unruffled by the ancients “to describe the flavor of Ch’en Shu’s style. |
