Rahei

A Chinese painter from the mid-Qing dynasty. His pen name was Dongfu and his pen name was Liangfeng. He was from Yangzhou (Jiangsu province). He was the youngest of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". He learned in a dream that he had been the head priest of the "Flower Temple" in his previous life, and called himself the "Flower Temple Monk". He was a disciple of Jin Dongxin, and published a posthumous collection of Jin Dongxin's works after his death. Luo Ping said that he saw demons in broad daylight, and painted a series of "Demon-themed Paintings". These were loved by the literati of the Qianlong period, and he also often painted Taoist and Buddhist paintings, people, landscapes, and flowers. His paintings use a wide range of techniques, from white drawings with uniform lines to ink paintings with a focus on bleeding. His representative work, Jiang Baishi's Poetic Album (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington), was created when he was 42 years old. Among them, "Han River Wildfire" depicts a wildfire burning in a barren winter field, but the contrast with the pitch-black rabbit that jumps out into the wilderness is extremely vivid, and together with the brushwork, it gives a premonition of the modern era.

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中国、清(しん)代中期の画家。字(あざな)は遯夫(とんふ)、号は両峯(りょうほう)。揚州(ようしゅう)（江蘇(こうそ)省）の人。「揚州八怪」中の最年少者。夢で前世において「花之寺」の主座であったことを知り、「花之寺僧」と号した。金冬心(きんとうしん)の弟子で、金冬心没後その遺集を出版した。羅聘は白昼に魑魅魍魎(ちみもうりょう)を見たといい、一連の「鬼趣図」を描いた。それは乾隆(けんりゅう)の文人たちに愛好され、ほかに道釈、人物、山水、花卉(かき)などもよくした。画(え)には均質な線による白描画的なものから、滲(にじ)みを主とした水墨画風のものまで幅広い技術が駆使されている。代表作『姜白石(きょうはくせき)詩意画冊』（ワシントン、フリーア美術館）は羅聘42歳の作である。このうち「漢川野火図」は冬枯れの原野に燃え盛る野火を描くが、そこに飛び出した真っ黒な兎(うさぎ)との対比がきわめて鮮やかであり、その筆遣いとともに、近代への予感を感じさせるものである。

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