Li Zhan - Rizen

Japanese: 李鱓 - りぜん

1686‐1762
Chinese painter of the mid-Qing dynasty. His pen name was Zongyang. His pen names included Futang, Ao Daoren, Mutou Laozi, and Zhongyang. He was from Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. He was a judge of the Imperial Court in 1711, and became the magistrate of Teng County, Shandong Province. He was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. He studied flower and bird painting under the court painter Jiang Tingxi, but was not accepted into the painting academy. After retiring from the government, he built and lived in the Fufu House on the southern outskirts of Yangzhou. He studied under Lin Liang of the early Ming Dynasty and specialized in flowers and trees with unrestrained brushwork. His representative works include Five Pine Trees (1747, Cleveland Museum of Art) and Spring Colors in the South of the City (1754, Shanghai Museum), among others.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1686‐1762
中国，清代中期の画家。字は宗揚。号は復堂，懊道人，木頭老子，中洋など。江蘇省興化の人。康熙50年(1711)の挙人で，山東省滕県（とうけん）知県に至った。揚州八怪の一人。花鳥画を宮廷画家の蔣廷錫（しようていしやく）に学んだが画院に入れられず，退官して揚州南郊に浮漚（ふおう）館を建てて住み，明初の林良に私淑して奔放な筆勢による花卉（かき）･樹石を得意とした。代表作は《五松図》(1747，クリーブランド美術館)，《城南春色図》(1754，上海博物館)ほか。

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