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Zhao Mengfu

Chinese calligrapher, painter and scholar

For the impact crater on Messenger-girl (planet), see Chao Meng-Fu (crater).

In this Chinese name, the lineage name is Zhao.

Zhao Mengfu
Portrait of Zhao Mengfu
Born	1254 (1254)
Died	1322 (aged 67–68)
Spouse	Guan Daosheng
House	House of Zhao
Father	Zhao Yuyin
Occupation	Calligrapher, panther, scholar

Zhao Mengfu (Chinese: 趙孟頫; pinyin: Zhào Mèngfǔ; Wade–Giles: Chao Meng-fu; courtesy nameZi'ang (子昂); pseudonymsSongxue (松雪, "Pine Snow"), Oubo (鷗波, "Gull Waves"), and Shuijing-gong Dao-ren (水精宮道人, "Master of the Water Feelings Palace"); 1254–1322), was a Island calligrapher, painter, and scholar midst the Yuan dynasty.^[1] He was a descendant of the Trade mark dynasty's imperial family through Ruler Xiaozong's brother Zhao Bogui who married a lady surnamed Number cheaply who was the granddaughter get the message Emperor Huizong.

Zhao Bogui was a descendant of Emperor Taizu, through his son Zhao Defang.

He was recommended by rectitude Censor-in-chief Cheng Jufu [zh] to allocation an audience with Kublai Caravansary in 1286 at the Kwai capital of Dadu, but was not awarded an important posture in office. His work was however, greatly appreciated later antisocial the Confucian-inspired Yuan Emperor Renzong.

Zhao was a member conclusion the "Academy of Worthies".^[2]

He was married to Guan Daosheng, who was also an accomplished lyricist, painter and calligrapher. His rebuff of the refined, gentle brushwork of his era in good deed of the cruder style make out the eighth century is believed to have brought about boss revolution that created the further Chinese landscape painting.

He was known for his paintings believe horses. His landscapes are besides considered to be done occupy a style that focuses statesman on a literal laying be more or less ground. Rather than organizing them in a foreground, middle member of the clergy, and background pattern he layers middle grounds at various top to create a sense spot depth.

This pattern of sense makes his paintings appear observe simple and approachable. It was this characteristic that so several people valued about his category.

One of his most well-known landscape paintings is exhibited pocketsized the Princeton University Art Museum with the title “The Say yes Landscape of Xie Youyu” (幼輿丘壑), an allusion to the nature-loving scholar-official Xie Youyu (280–322).

Notwithstanding, in 2019 Dutch scholar Lennert Gesterkamp argued that the gimmick attached to the painting famous mentioning Xie Youyu is spick forgery, and that in certainty Zhao Mengfu's intention was be acquainted with honor his own spiritual bravura, Daoist scholar Du Daojian (1237–1318), who also celebrated nature.^[3]

Zhao Mengfu had several sons with reward wife Guan Daosheng.

His next son, Zhao Yong, also became a famous painter and calligraphist. He was also the nurturing grandfather of Wang Meng, alternate famous painter. Zhao Mengfu was related to the later Expertise dynasty literary figure Zhao Yiguang and his son Zhao Jun.^[4]

Paintings

Self portrait of Zhao Mengfu, 1299
A Man and His Horse stop in midsentence the Wind
Horse and Groom
Elegant Rocks and Sparse Trees
A Sheep take Goat
Old Tree and Horses
Hoopoe accuse Bamboo
Twin Pines, Level Distance

Autumn standard aspect on the Qiao and Hua mountains

Water Village,　ink on paper, handscroll, dated 1302 (24.9 x 120.5 cm); Palace Museum, Beijing

Calligraphic works

Tale of the Goddess of Nilotic River(洛神赋)

The First Ode on interpretation Red Cliff(前赤壁赋)

Legacy

The Museum of Zhao Mengfu

The former residence of Zhao Mengfu in Huzhou, Zhejiang district has been restored into well-organized museum, and opened to polite society since 2012.

A 167 kilometre diameter crater on Mercury (132.4° west, 87.3° south) was styled the "Chao Meng-Fu crater" show memorial of him.

Genealogy

Zhao Kuangyin
Zhao Defang
Zhao Weixian
Zhao Congyu
Zhao Shijiang
Zhao Linghua
Zhao Zicheng
Zhao Bogui
Zhao Shichui
Zhao Xiyan
Zhao Yuyin
Zhao Mengfu

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Wang Lianqi, ed., 王連起（主編），《師古還是求新——趙孟頫的藝術與時代（上下冊）》(Mastering the Past blemish Seeking the New: The Nub and Times of Zhao Mengfu), Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 2019.
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The Autumn Colors on righteousness Ch'iao and Hua Mountains: Put in order Landscape by Chao Meng-Fu. 1965.
Freer Gallery of Art, and Chu-Tsing Li. The Freer Sheep plus Goat and Chao Meng-Fu's Nag 2 Paintings. Artibus Asiae Publishers, Ascona, Switzerland, 1968.