Ni Zhan (1301-1374), painter and poet of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. The first name is 珽, the character Taiyu, the later character Yuanzhen, the number Yunlinzi, the Jing barbarians, the phantom Xiazi and so on. People from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Ni Zhan's family is rich, erudite and ancient, and the famous people of the four directions often come to his door. Emperor Yuan Shun suddenly scattered his family wealth at the beginning of the day and wandered around The Taihu Lake. The history of painting will combine him with Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, and Wang Meng as the Four Families of the Yuan. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, he was revered by Dong Qichang and others, and often put him above the other three.
Ni Zhan landscape masters Dong Yuan, Jing Hao, Guan Tong, and Li Cheng developed them, and their painting methods were sparse and simple, and their style was naïve and bleak. The works mostly paint the landscape around Taihu Lake, the composition is flat and far, the scenery is minimalist, and the slopes are mostly sparsely forested, and the shallow water is remote. Use the pen to change the center to the flank, fold the belt to paint the mountain stone, dry ink with a dry pen, light and elegant pine show, the artistic conception is cold and empty, the style is scattered and super-easy, the simplicity is complex, the small is big, the outside is lonely and contains passion. He is also good at painting ink and bamboo, with a "leisurely" style and a thin and vigorous opening. There are many inscriptions in the painting.
Ni Zhan is the most influential Yuan Dynasty painter in later generations, his simple, sparse landscape painting style is the object of pursuit of the Ming and Qing masters, such as Dong Qichang, Shi Tao and other great masters have cited him as the originator, Shi Tao's calligraphy inscriptions, from the spirit to the asana are based on Ni Zhan as the law. Ni Zhan is also a calligrapher who takes retro as the banner and pursues the personalization of art, and like Zhang Yu and Yang Weizhen, he belongs to this era and does not belong to this era, which is the transcendent value of art to the times.
Appreciation of works
Yuan Ni Zhan's "Six Gentlemen's Diagram"
Yuan Ni Zhan 'Ancient Wood Shadow Diagram》
88.6x30cm Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
Yuan Ni Zhan "Ancient Wood Bamboo Stone Diagram"
Yuan Ni Zhan's "Map of Wangshan on the RiverBank"
111.3x33.2cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan "Jiangting Mountain Color"
94.7x43.7cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan "Rong Knee Zhai Tu"
74.7x35.5cm, National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan's "Distant Forest"
72.9x37.5cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan's "Water Bamboo Residence Map"
55.5x28.2cm Collection of the National Museum of China
Yuan Ni Zhan "Pine Forest Pavilion"
83.4x52.9cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan "Tong Lu Qingqin"
90.1x30cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan "Zizhi Mountain House Map"
80.5x34.8cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yuan Ni Zhan's "Yuzhuang Qiu Ji Tu"
96.1x46.9cm, Shanghai Museum Collection
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