Shen Quan

Shen Quan ( Chinese  沈 銓  /  沈 铨 , Pinyin Shěn Quán , W.-G. Shen Ch'üan ), Zì Nanpin ( 南 蘋 , Nánpín ), Hào Hengzhai ( 衡 斎 , Héngzhāi ; circa 1682 - 1762 ) was a Chinese Painter who taught realistic execution of subjects such as "flowers and birds" during his two-year stay in Nagasaki .

life and work

Shen Quan was from Wuxing, Zhejiang Province . He came to Nagasaki on the 3rd day of the 12th month of the year 1731 and during his two-year stay taught the painter Yū Hi in a realistic design of "flowers and birds" pictures ( 花鳥画 , Kachōzu ). Shen left Japan on October 25, 1733, but kept in touch with Japan and sent pictures.

Yū Hi, in turn, taught Sō Shiseki and the monk of the Ōbaku direction Kakutei ( 鶴亭 ; 1722–1785). After that, the Nanpin style spread across the country. In Kyoto, Maruyama Ōkyo was influenced by Shen, and this style was also adopted in Edo by painters such as Tani Buncho and Watanabe Kazan . This style reached Akita via Hiraga Gennai , there along with the realistic style that came from Europe via Nagasaki to Japan.

In addition to the realistic painting style , Shen's style is characterized by an emphatically asymmetrical composition in the image design of hanging scrolls .

gallery

Hares among plums in the snow , 1716

Phoenixes and Flowers , 1735

Crane and Flowers, 1738

Plum, and Cranes , 1759

Bird on branch , undated

Remarks

1. ↑ Yū Hi ( 熊 斐 ) is the Chinese-style name of Kumashiro Hi ( 熊 代 斐 ; 1693–1772), who was also called Kumashiro Shūkō ( 熊 代 繡 江 ).
2. ↑ Kyōhō 18/9/18 according to the Japanese calendar

literature

• Tazawa Yutaka: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art . Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web link

Commons : Shen Quan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Shen is the family name here, Quan is the first name.