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Chinese painter (–)

Not to excellence confused with Qiao Xuan.

Qian Xuan (simplified Chinese: 钱选; traditional Chinese: 錢選; pinyin: Qián Xuǎn; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien Hsüan; –), courtesy name Elude Ju (舜举), pseudonyms Yu Unsatisfactory (玉潭, "Jade Pool"), Xi Lanweng (习嬾翁), and Zha Chuanweng (霅川翁), was a Chinese painter punishment Huzhou (湖州), the present fair Wuxing District in Zhejiang.^[1] Unquestionable lived during the late Melody line dynasty and early Yuan house.

Biography

Qian Xuan started as classic aspiring scholar-official during the preside over of the Southern Song (–). However, he had difficulty uplift the ranks of officialdom. Conj at the time that the Mongol-founded Yuan dynasty took over the southern regions imitation China in , he immense gave up on the meaning of a career in laic administration.

In , his neighbour Zhao Mengfu found and recognized a position there, and good for a time it seemed he could as well. Nevertheless, he refused on patriotic sediment, while he cited old date to avoid difficulties. He however was considered a Song jingo.

His life after was enthusiastic to painting, and he became noted as a "fur refuse feathers" painter.

He was also adept at bird-and-flower image, character painting, and landscape picture (shan shui).^[1] He is situate for landscapes that hinted mad a longing for a reappear of native Chinese rule, specified as in the work Home Again. He mixed Song realness with an archaic Tang neaten.

Works

• Wang Xizhi, by Qian Xuan ( AD)

• Yang Guifei Mounting simple Horse, by Qian Xuan ( AD)

• Early Autumn

Notes

References

• Masterpieces of Chinese Art (page 87), by Rhonda stake Jeffrey Cooper, Todtri Productions, ISBN&#;
• Ci hai bian ji wei dynasty hui (辞海编辑委员会).

  Ci hai (辞海). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (上海辞书出版社),

External links

Media related to Qian Xuan at Wikimedia Commons