Wang Fu (painter)

For other people named Wang Fu, see Wang Fu.

Ink Bamboo, Palace Museum, 1401

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang (王).

Wang Fu (simplified Chinese: 王绂; traditional Chinese: 王紱; pinyin: Wáng Fú; ca. 1362–1416), courtesy name Mengduan (孟端), art names Youshisheng (友石生) and Jiulong Shanren (九龍山人), was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming dynasty.

Wang was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu.^[1] Wang's painting followed the style of Wang Meng and Ni Zan. Wang also painted ink bamboo works in a free and uninhibited style.

Notes

1. "Wang Fu Brief Biography". Archived from the original on 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2008-07-09.

References

• Ci hai bian ji wei yuan 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), 1979.
• Jonathan Chaves “Painter-Poet Wang Fu (1362-1416),” (essay with translations), Oriental Art, Vol. XLV, No. 4, 1999/2000.