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Wu Bin (painter)

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Educated as one of the literati and skilled as a painter, he worked mainly in Nanjing about 1590–1610. He became a devout follower of Buddhism and lived and worked in a Buddhist temple. In Nanjing, he often depicted Buddhist arhats behaving as magicians, performing superstitious rituals and healing
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It is uncertain whether he worked for the vice imperial government in Nanjing. Mi Wanzong (1570-1628), a high ranking government officer, calligrapher, and painter, was his patron from about ACE1600. Wu Bin moved to Beijing with Mi Wanzong's support in about 1610, where he produced several
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The Beijing imperial court assigned him the status for a professional technocrat as painter. There are no records of him after 1626, with some sources indicating that he was purged by the powerful and notorious eunuch
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masterpieces such as a landscape of Mi's Garden and ten portraits of a marvelous rock which Mi had appreciated. The latter, "Ten Views of Lingbi Rock", is one of the world's most expensive paintings.
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practices to satisfy requests made by religious men and women. These are colorful portraits where irony and sarcasm prevail. The 1591 handscroll entitled
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Chen Yunru, Fantasic and Extraordinary The Realm of Wu bin's Painting. (Chinese and English text) National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
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James Cahill, Wu Pin and His Landscape Painting." Paper for International Conference on Chinese Painting, Palace Museum, Taipei, 1970
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Howard Rogers and Sherman Lee, Masterworks of Ming and Qing Paintings from the Forbidden city, International Art Council, USA, 1988
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Biography of Wu Bin was controversial among scholars. This refers to the latest and very modest description of Chen Yunru 2013
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James Cahill: Fantastic and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting, New York, 1972.
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exemplifies such work. He also produced 500 arhat hanging scrolls in
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Buddhism sect, having painted a large Nirvana scene for them.
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Detail of landscape by Wu Bin, ink and color on paper, 1610;
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Journey in San Yin, handscroll, Ink and color on Paper
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in Nanjing in about 1601, some of which have survived.
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Greeting the Spring (Landscape Handscroll) in 1600.
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Chinese name
family name
Wu

Honolulu Museum of Art
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Ming dynasty
landscape painter
Wanli Emperor
courtesy name
art name
Putian
Fujian
Ōbaku
"The 16 Luohans"
Qixia Temple
Wei Zhongxian

Asian Art Museum
"Pine Lodge amid Tall Mountains"
Cleveland Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The 16 Luohans"
Honolulu Museum of Art
Shanghai Museum
Palace Museum

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