Hongren
Illustration — The Coming of Autumn, ink on paper by Hongren (Hong Ren), 1658–61, Honolulu Museum of Art Hong Ren, who is also known as Hongren, (Chinese: 弘仁; born 1610, Xixian, Anhui province, China—died 1663) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and painter of the early Qing dynasty and a member of the Anhui (or Xin'an) school of painting. His birth name was Jiang Fang. After the fall of the Ming dynasty and the death of his mother, he became a monk, as did his artistic contemporaries, Zhu Da, Shitao, and Kun Can.
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Hongren
Hongren (Hong Ren), China · Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Museum of Art Collection Highlights, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2016 ISBN 9780937426913 · Public domain
- Full name
- 江韬.
- Born
- 1610. · She County.
- Died
- Hongren died, sources differ on the date (in 1663 and in 1664).
- Nationality
- Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.
- Occupation
- painter and buddhist monk.
- Movements
- Xin'an School.
- Teachers
- Xiao Yuncong.
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Illustration — The Coming of Autumn, ink on paper by Hongren (Hong Ren), 1658–61, Honolulu Museum of Art Hong Ren, who is also known as Hongren, (Chinese: 弘仁; born 1610, Xixian, Anhui province, China—died 1663) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and painter of the early Qing dynasty and a member of the Anhui (or Xin'an) school of painting. His birth name was Jiang Fang. After the fall of the Ming dynasty and the death of his mother, he became a monk, as did his artistic contemporaries, Zhu Da, Shitao, and Kun Can.
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They protested the fall of the Ming dynasty by becoming monks.
Training under Xiao Yuncong is recorded. Yao Song and Jiang Zhu are recorded as having studied under Hongren. Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Anhui. Work by Hongren is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery.
Although he is regarded to have begun painting to help support his family at an early age, his more famous works were created in his later years. His paintings can be seen to exhibit an intense portrayal of the characteristics presented in the works of Ni Zan; a Yuan Dynasty master. Hong Ren's style has been said to "[represent] the world in a dematerialized, cleansed version... revealing his personal peace through the liberating form of geometric abstraction."
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- Trois mille ans de peinture chinoise. Éditions Philippe Picquier. 1997. 2-87730-341-1.
- Dictionnaire des peintres,sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. éditions Gründ. 7. 1999. 2-7000-3017-6.
- J. Cahill, La Peinture chinoise, Genève, 1960.
- Trois mille ans de peinture chinoise. Éditions Philippe Picquier. 1997. 2-87730-341-1.
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