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Lingnan Masters: South Chinese Painting in Transition 1800–2000

(from 6th Aug 2013 until 23rd Feb 2014)

Discover the mastery of the Lingnan School of painting in China over the last 200 years.

Detail of ‘Lychees and cicada', by Chen Shuren, Hong Kong, 1928 (Museum no: EA2002.72)
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  • Description

    Deng Fen was born into a literary family in Nanhai county, Guangdong province. When he was young he apprenticed under various scholars and masters of traditional Chinese painting, and calligraphy. He was accomplished in painting figures, flowers, birds, and landscapes. Another Chinese master painter Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) once praised Deng Fen as the “only master of Chinese painting in Guangdong”.

    Deng Fen made great contributions to the preservation and development of traditional Chinese painting in south China. He was a founding member of the Society of Chinese Painting Studies in Guangdong and Hong Kong. In 1933 he was invited by Li Yanshan (1898-1961) to serve as a principal professor in Chinese painting at the latter’s Municipal Art School of Guangzhou. Li was another major traditional Guangdong artist, whose works are also shown in this exhibition.

    Though holding different views on the development of Chinese painting, the traditional artists and the innovatory Lingnan School artists frequently worked together and shared similar interests in painting subjects, such as southern plants and landscapes.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChina Hong Kong (possible place of creation)
    AsiaChinaJiangsu province Suzhou (Zhuōzhèng Yuán) (subject)
    Date
    24 April - 22 May 1963
    Artist/maker
    Deng Fen (1894 - 1964) (artist)
    Deng Fen (1894 - 1964) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 162 x 34.7 cm (height x width)
    painting 110 x 23.5 cm (height x width)
    along roller 44 cm (width)
    rolled 5.8 cm (diameter)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the 75th birthday of Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.162

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    • currently in research collection

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