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The Qing dynasty
closed China to maritime trade in 1757, just at the moment when European
nations were expanding their international commerce. Guangzhou (Canton)
was the only legal port for trade between China and the outside world
until 1843. This southeastern region, which includes modern Guangdong
province, was commonly referred to as Lingnan, and produced some of the
most important political thinkers of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, including Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who
advocated replacing the imperial system with a constitutional monarchy,
and Sun Yat-sen, who established China's first republic in 1911.
The development of a Cantonese manner of painting began in the
nineteenth century, but did not attain national visibility and a
distinctive style until the first part of the twentieth century. The
leader of the Lingnan School of painting was Gao Jianfu (1879-1950?),
who joined the Alliance Society (Tongmeng hui), founded by Sun Yat-sen
in 1905 to overthrow the emperor. After 1911 he devoted himself instead
to a revolution in art. In his painting, publications, and teaching, he
promoted the development of a New National Painting (xin guohua). He and
his followers, most notably his younger brother GAO Qifeng, combined the
local style with elements of Western and Japanese realist painting to
create an art that they hoped would be more accessible to the citizenry
of China's new republic than the literati painting of the past.
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The Roots and
Branches of the Lingnan school of Painting |
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Song guangbao and
meng jinyi
( Center China bird and flower painters brought to Canton in
retinue of imperial government official, first half of 19th
century
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JU LIAN
JU CHAO
( 1827 - 1904 )
( Innovative professional flower painter and teacher of these
artists around 1900 )
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GAO JIAN-FU 1987-1951
GAO QI-FENG 1889-1935
CHEN SHU-REN 1883-1949
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The three founders
of the Lingnan School Study in Japan, 1906-1911, and participate
in Republican Revolution of 1911.
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Disciples at Spring
Slumber Studio
in Canton, 1924-1937 |
Disciples at Heavenly Breeze Pavilion in
Canton, 1929-1935 |
one direct Follower
Low Chun-Jo |
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The Lingnan School of painting |
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