#ling yan jian

A Corner of Ling Yan Jian (霝岩澗一角). Pan Tianshou (潘天壽). Colour on paper. 1955.

Pan Tianshou (1897–1971) was a Chinese painter and educator. He attended Zhejiang First Normal School, and studied Chinese traditional painting under famous artist Wu Changshuo (吳昌碩). Pan was among those persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.

A Corner of Ling Yan Jian, like most of Pan’s works, is a bird and flower painting (花鳥畫) done with the freehand brush work style (寫意). However, the piece stands out among other paintings in the same category in that it combines the flowers with the landscape. 

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