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Self Portrait by Ren Xiong undated, hanging scroll, ink and color on paperOne of the first self-portraits; relatively naturalistic modeling of the face and upper body contrasts dramatically with the powerful linear rendering of the garments, as though to juxtapose the artist's contemporary reality with the antique traditions to which Chinese painting might pay homage.

Ren Xiong
Ten Myriads
Al bum of ten leaves
THe boldness of these landscape compositions created with mineral pigments on a ground of gold leaf makes it one of the most original albums of the period. A line of calligrpahy on each leaf begins with the word ten thousand or myraid. IT was paitned for a suzhou collector and bears inscriptions dated 1856 by close friends of the artist including the painter zhou xian.

Ren Yi
1887
Five scucesful sons
Depicts a tenth centuray scholar names dou yujun, of the stte of zhou whose five sons all passed the imperial civil service examinations.

Ren Yi
1881-1882
Album of figures, flowers and birds, leaf 2
Ink and color on paper
He demenonstrates several themes for which he is well known including the story of the loyal su wu.

Ren Yi
The cold and sour offical
1888
This work is a good-humored satire of the offical career of the artists friend, who is garbed here in the tassseled hat of a manchu official. Although educated for a role in governement, wu receiverd lowly clerical appointment quite late in life, and served for only one miserable month before giving it up. THe sitter himself wrote ont he paitning. "i knew my patthetic demanro and feared i would provoke the anger of my supervisors."
THe potrait makes novel use of puddled or boneless ink and color wash for rendering garments of the figure.

Wu Jiayou
1891
THief in the flower garden
lithography 7
Features two speical features, natural history and famous ladies. FLeeting shadow pavilion pictorial may be viewes ad a typical example of hsanghais hybrid culture, appeling to an urban chinese audience wiht its tradtiional format, but also filled with the most up to date subjects and images. Western influence witht he hanging of pictures emply modified western archiveectural perspecitve and complciated interior senes to convey a sense of journalistic accuracy. The setting hese ia s combitaion of chinese furniture, european lamps, chinese alnters , aeuropean mirror, hanging scrols paintin, calligraphy and framed photographs. With voyeuristic appeal, the artists depcits the crimial as though caught in athe act with his surreptitious posture echoed in tits mirror relfection. The artists publichser comments sympathetically int hh is text that mutiliatin ghte couretesan by cuttin goff her hair was ackin to stealing her livelihood

Xugu
1895
ink and color on paper
album of various subjects
No paitner before has abstrated his subject matter to the extent that one finds in the eccentritc angular work of xugu. Although his cool, dry brushwork seems distant his every subject matter and warm colors offen an appeal tot he senses. THis ablum combines the auspicious themes for which he is well known such as the goldfish was a symbol of high posititon, with mundane but pleasing objects found int he vegetable or fish market.

Zhao Zhiqian
Flowers
1859
ink and color on paper
ery important ifnleucne in calligraphy and epigraphy. Painting on flower paitning usually light pleasant. ALso uses very dark and heavy color.Makes it a very serious against the white and black background.

Ren ZUn and Zh CHeng
Bogutu
1872
INk and color on paper
Learn from the es ancientwriting sytels to get epihgraphy feel. Writing becomes very popular even as this kind of infleucne new merchant class start to collect that and show high taste. FOr this the new patinings besides this kind of black and white ant to add some colorful flowers, although already destroy the original meaning. One hand you wanna show high taste of collecting ancient subjects, on the other hand you want auspicious especially flwoer to make more colorful/beautiful.

Wu Changshi
Loquats and WIld Roses
1920
Ink and color on paper
A superb calligrapher and seal carver, he was educated under qing dynasty to serve as a confucian officla. WIth the collapse of his administiratiove aspirations and then the dynasty himself he become profesional artists, developing his sill in calligraphy and sael acarving into a =new nmode of painting. After his friend ren yi and other patiners died in 1890s he emeraged as a leader of the last phase of shanghiai school of paitning. He served as a typical imporatant transitional figure between the early and late shangihai school > THis painting exemplfiies themature style that later influenced any artists.

Gao Qifeng
1916
Monkeys and SNowy Pine
Ink and color on paper
Gao Jianfu's younger borther accompanied him to japan, studied japanese realism, nihonga. THis painting with its combination of western naturalism and japanese decorative style, is a superb example of hte manner he learned in japan.

Gao Jianfu
Eagle 1929
Ink and color on paper

Li Shutong
Self-Portait
1911
oil on canvas
People often required to have own self portrati before graduationg. The only extant authentic oil paitning by li shutong efore he became monk. Most were givien away. IT depeits himself in near frontal view weaing shor thair and a mustache. he is dressed in a very dark coat. Seems like there ar etrees behind him. Large dots are aplied to form the paitning, the poiintillistic stippling technique typical of some post-impressionist paitnings. The lefts isde is brighiter indicatign a source of light Training of human anamtopy still be seen celarly in his face.

Liu Haisu
Qianmen,
1922
OIl on canvus
Old motifs, new style, post impressionism. He comapred himself to van gogh.

Xu Beihong
SOund of the flute
1926
OIl on canvas
THis painted portrait is typtical of hte romantic style that made him famous after his return to china. this style was promoted in his influential career as an art educator. HIs belief was drawing as the basis of paitning determining his approach to art. Xu made a portarist of his second wife, and inscribed it as biwei in a mirror