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The poet Su Dongpo

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  • Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Su Dongpo, also known as Su Shi, was one of the greatest calligraphers and poets of the Northern Song (960-1127) dynasty. Ren Zhenhan here depicts him in the image of his own poem - carrying a stick, dressed in hermit's clothes - and in the specific brushwork style termed by Su Shi when describing the calligraphy of his contemporary Huang Tingjian (1045-1105) as "snake hanging from a tree". The painting is dated 1989, the year of the snake. Ren favoured literary subjects for his figure paintings; this scroll may be compared with Shanghai School of figures of the 19th century.

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