Huang Quan (painter)
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Huang Quan (903–965), courtesy name Yaoshu, was a Chinese painter during the Five Dynasties period and the Song dynasty who worked in the imperial painting academies of the Former Shu, Later Shu and Song dynasties. Along with Xu Xi, Huang is considered a founding master of the bird-and-flower painting.
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Born | 903 | ||||||||
Died | 965 | ||||||||
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Style | Bird-and-flower painting | ||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 黃筌 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黄筌 | ||||||||
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Huang Yaoshu | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 黃要叔 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黄要叔 | ||||||||
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Huang Quan was highly prolific: the 1120 catalog Xuanhe Huapu alone critiques 349 of his works. Unfortunately few are extant.