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內容簡介（英文） |
Chou Ch’en was a native of Wu-hsien, Kiangsu. His style name was Shun-ch’ing and his sobriquet was Tung-ts’un. He excelled at both landscape and figure painting, and studied landscape from Ch’en Hsien (1405-1496). He based his style on the Sung Dynasty masters: Li T’ang, Liu Sung-nien, Ma Yuan, and Hsia Kuei. His brushwork was strong, refined, sharp and vigorous, and he transmitted his style to the Wu School masters T’ang Yin and Ch’iu Ying.
A pair of pine trees draped with wisteria stand between the crags. The distant mountains are painted in light ink, conveying a feeling of broad space. Two scholars sit facing each other, admiring the waterfall as they converse. The sounds of human voices and of water seem to be almost audible in this composition. In this painting, Chou Ch’en’s brushwork is broad and unrestrained, as is characteristic of his mature style. Although the inscription states that this painting follows the manner of Tai Chin, an earlier Ming painter, it is in fact more similar to the style of the Southern master, Ma Yuan.
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