Wang Meng (painter)

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Wang Meng is a Chinese Peintre, one of most famous of the Dynastie Yuan (1279-1368). It was born towards 1308 and died towards 1385.

He is the small son of Zhao Mengfu (1254 - 1322) and of his wife Guan Daosheng, he is also of the family of Zhao Yong (1289 - 1360), the second wire of Zhao Mengfu.

All were recognized for their talents of painters and calligraphers. Most famous was Zhao Mengfu, but Zhao Yong was also famous for its paintings of human faces, landscapes, horses or its poems, as for Guan Daosheng its paintings with ink made with the bamboo or the feather met also success. The emperor Renzong (1311 - 1320) collected penmanships of Zhao Mengfu, Guan Daosheng and Zhao Yong and declared that it was rare to see husband, woman and child all equipped with talent for this Article.

With Nor Zan (1301 - 1374), Huang Gongwang (1269 - 1354) and Wu Zhen (1280 - 1354), he is regarded as one of the four large Masters of the Yuan period.

Its name of artist was Xiangguang Jushi. There was poet, but especially remained known for its paintings of landscapes which mix the objective key, descriptive, energetic, powerful and especially very detailed of the landscape such as he was really with a more complex, more ambiguous and more subjective vision of the painted subject, the whole giving to final to the rocks, the torrents, the trees… a strong dramatic intensity.

The particular style that it used to paint its landscapes will be imitated and will influence the painters succeeding to him.

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