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Ren Yi
Ren Yi (; 1840–1896), also known as Ren Bonian, was a painter and son of a rice merchant who supplemented his income by doing portraits. He was born in Zhejiang, but after the death of his father in 1855 he lived in Shanghai. This move placed him in a more urban world that was exposed to Western thinking. In Shanghai he became a member of the Shanghai School which fused popular and traditional styles. Ren Bonian ranked with Ren Xiong, Ren Xun and Ren Yu as the "Four Rens." He was noted for his bold brushstrokes and use of color. In his earlier career the Song dynasty painters influenced him, but later on he favored a freer style influenced by the works of Zhu Da. Gallery File:'Portrait of Gao Yong's Wife', ink on paper by Ren Yi (1840-1896), 1886, Honolulu Academy of Arts.jpg, ''Portrait of Gao Yong's Wife'' by Rèn Yi, 1886, Honolulu Museum of Art File:Ren Bonian - Playing the Flute - Walters 35101C.jpg, ''Playing the Flute'', 1860–80, Walters Art Museum Sources *''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren (surname)
Rén is the Standard Chinese, Mandarin pinyin romanisation of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character, Chinese script. It is romanised as Jen in Wade–Giles, and Yam or Yum in Cantonese. It is listed 58th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 59th most common surname in China, shared by 4.2 million people. In 2019 it was the 49th most common surname in Mainland China. The character 任 is typically pronounced (), but as a surname is pronounced "rén," as well as in Ren County in Hebei. Ancient Surname Rèn (妊) is a variant of the surname and one of the Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity. Unlike it is a very rare surname The Zuo Zhuan states that the surname Ren is a descendant of Fuxi, Fuxi's surname Fēng (surname 封), Fēng. Some consider the two surnames to be related Notable people * Ren Guang (Han dynasty), Ren Guang (:zh:任光, 任光; died 29 AD), Eastern Han dynasty general, one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhejiang
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Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai School
''Haipai'' (, Shanghainese: ''hepha'', ; literally " hangai style") refers to the avant-garde but unique "East Meets West" culture from Shanghai in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is a part of the culture of Shanghai. Etymology The term was coined by a group of Beijing writers in 1920 to criticize some Shanghai scholars and the styles of embracing or admiring western capitalism and western culture. The name ''Haipai'' originally came from painting and drama. According to ''History of Chinese Painting'', which was published in 1937, "During Emperor Tongzhi's and Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty, most Chinese painters lived in Shanghai and made a living by selling paintings. In order to make profits, painters catered to vulgar public taste. Their paintings gradually demonstrated ''Haipai'' style." In addition, performers of Peking opera regarded Beijing as the authority of China and they referred to cities outside Beijing as ''Haipai''. At that time ''Haipai'' was used by scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren Xiong
Ren Xiong (; courtesy name: Weichang 渭長, also known as Xiangpu 湘浦; art name: Bushe 不捨; July 19, 1823 – November 23, 1857) was a Chinese painter from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, active during the late Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the .... Ren belonged to the Shanghai School in Chinese painting and is known for his bold and innovative style. His paintings significantly influenced the Shanghai School and modern Chinese painting. Career After leaving his teacher, Ren traveled to various cities to make a living through painting. In Hangzhou, he received support from his fellow townsman Lu Yeshan and connected with many other artists. During this period, his portrait paintings gained recognition. He continued studying traditional art, copying the stone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren Xun
Ren Xun (; ca. 1835–1893) was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty. Ren was born in Xiaoshan in Zhejiang province. Ren came from a family of artists, his brother was Ren Xiong. His paintings were primarily of human figures, done in the style of Chen Hongshou. He was one of the "Four Rens of Shanghai" Today, his work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Palace Museum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heig .... References 1835 births 1893 deaths Artists from Hangzhou 19th-century Chinese painters Painters from Zhejiang Chinese male painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren Yu
Ren or REN may refer to: Abbreviations * Orenburg Airport, IATA code REN, civil airport in Russia * Raw Egg Nationalist, British far-right influencer * Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN), Portuguese energy company * ''Renanthera'', abbreviated as Ren, orchid genus * Ringer equivalence number (REN), a number which denotes the loading effect of a telephone ringer on a telephone line People * MC Ren, rapper from the group N.W.A. * Raw Egg Nationalist, British far-right influencer * Ren Gill, Welsh musician known professionally as Ren * Ren (singer), member of South Korean boy band NU'EST * Ren (given name), a mostly Japanese given name, includes a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Ren (surname) (任), Chinese surname, includes a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Renforshort, Canadian singer formerly known as Ren Places and buildings * Ren County, in Hebei, China * Ren, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Ren (building), a hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Dynasty
The Song dynasty ( ) was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period#Ten Kingdoms, Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Song frequently came into conflict with the contemporaneous Liao dynasty, Liao, Western Xia and Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin dynasties in northern China. After retreating to southern China following attacks by the Jin dynasty, the Song was eventually conquered by the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The History of the Song dynasty, dynasty's history is divided into two periods: during the Northern Song (; 960–1127), the capital was in the northern city of Bianjing (now Kaifeng) and the dynasty controlled most of what is now East China. The #Southern Song, 1127–1279, Southern Song (; 1127–1279) comprise the period following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Da
Zhu Da (), also known by his pen name Bada Shanren (), was a late-Ming and early-Qing dynasty Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet. He was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, in 1626, at during the Ming-Qing Transition. Zhu was mentally ill and displayed erratic behavior. He was related to the House of Zhu, which was destroyed and executed by the new Qing dynasty. Fearing that he would also be purged and executed, he fled to a Buddhist temple and learned the teachings of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, becoming a monk for 30 years. He spent most of his early to mid-life in the Buddhist monkhood, returning to Nanchang when he was about fifty years old. He embarked on an artistic career soon after reentering secular life in 1680, producing works that featured his calligraphy, painting, and poetry.Wang and Barnhart, 50. Most of the time, he painted simple subjects like flowers, plants, and animals and kept most of the given space empty. Toward the end of his life, he started painting more landsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honolulu Museum Of Art
The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. It has one of the largest single collections of Asian and Pan-Pacific art in the United States, and since its official opening on April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to more than 55,000 works of art. Description The Honolulu Museum of Art was called "the finest small museum in the United States" by J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992. In addition to an internationally renowned permanent collection, the museum houses innovative exhibitions, an art school, an independent art house theatre, a café, and a museum shop. In 2011, Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, The Contemporary Museum gifted its assets and collection to the Honolulu Academy of Arts; in 2012, the combined museum changed its name to the Honolulu Museum of Art. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon, Baltimore, Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters. William Walters began collecting when he moved to Paris as a nominal Confederate States of America, Confederate loyalist at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, and Henry Walters refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction what ultimately was Walters Art Museum. Admission to the museum is free. History After allowing the Baltimore public to occasionally view his father's and his growing added collections at his West Mount Vernon Place mansion during the late 1800s, Henry Walters arranged for an elaborate stone palazzo-styled structure to be built for this purpose in 1905–1909, located a block s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford
Oxford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of Architecture of England, English architecture since late History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, science, and information technologies. Founded in the 8th century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (locally known as the Isis) and River Cherwell, Cherwell. It had a population of in . It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. History The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon period. The name � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
