Shitao

Shitao, Master Shi Planting Pines, c. 1674, ink and colour on paper, National Palace Museum.

Shitao (simplified Chinese: 石涛; traditional Chinese: 石濤, c. 1642 – 1707), born Zhu Ruoji (Chinese: 朱若極), was a Chinese Buddhist monk [en], calligrapher, painter and theoretician of the early Qing dynasty. Alongside Bada Shanren [en], he was one of China's most famous Individualist [en] painters of the early Qing dynsasty.

References

  1. ↑ Hay, Jonathan (2001). Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521393423.
  2. 1 2 "Shitao" on the Encyclopædia Britannica online. Archived 12 November 2022