Wang Fu (painter)

{{Short description|Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet}} {{Other people|Wang Fu|Wang Fu (disambiguation){{!}}Wang Fu}} [[Image:Wang Fu-Ink Bamboo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Ink Bamboo'', Palace Museum, 1401]] {{commons category|Wang Fu}} {{family name hatnote|Wang (王)|lang=Chinese}} '''Wang Fu''' ({{zh|t=王紱|s=王绂|p=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.<ref name="chinaweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.china-on-site.com/pages/painter/1064.php|title=Wang Fu Brief Biography|accessdate=2008-07-09|archive-date=2014-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911001750/http://www.china-on-site.com/pages/painter/1064.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wang's painting followed the style of Wang Meng and Ni Zan. Wang also painted ink bamboo works in a free and uninhibited style.

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==References== * Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui ({{lang|zh|辞海编辑委员会}}). Ci hai ({{lang|zh|辞海}}). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she ({{lang|zh|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.

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