Huang Quan (黃筌) | |||||||||
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| Born | 903 | ||||||||
| Died | 965 | ||||||||
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| Style | Bird-and-flower painting | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃筌 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄筌 | ||||||||
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| Huang Yaoshu | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 黃要叔 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄要叔 | ||||||||
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Huang Quan (903–965),courtesy nameYaoshu, was a Chinese painter during theFive Dynasties period and theSong dynasty who worked in the imperial painting academies of theFormer Shu,Later Shu and Song dynasties. Along withXu Xi, Huang is considered a founding master of thebird-and-flower painting.
Huang Quan was highly prolific: the 1120 catalogXuanhe Huapu alone critiques 349 of his works. Unfortunately few are extant.
Huang Quan was born in 903, when theTang empire had irretrievably collapsed into warlordism and civil strife. Around this time, many painters took refuge inChengdu, Huang Quan's hometown and the capital of the relatively peacefulXichuan Circuit, then controlled by the warlordWang Jian. (Wang Jian founded theFormer Shu empire in 907 after the Tang dynasty ended.) When Huang Quan was 12, he began his study of painting with thebird-and-flower painter Diao Guangyin (刁光胤), who had arrived in Chengdu from the Tang capitalChang'an in 903. Whereas Diao's other student Kong Song (孔嵩) never progressed beyond faithful reproduction of Diao's technique, Huang Quan sought to develop his own.[1] He studied the water paintings of Sun Wei (孫位), another refugee from Chang'an, as well as the landscape paintings of Li Sheng (李昇), a leading local painter. By combining the strengths of all his teachers Huang was able to create a superior style.[2]
In 919, the 16-year-old Huang Song became an imperial attendant (待詔) in the Painting Academy of Former Shu,[2] which probably lasted until 925 when the Former Shu was conquered by theLater Tang empire.
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