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Shitao or Shi Tao (simplified Chinese: 石涛; traditional Chinese: 石濤; pinyin: Shí Tāo; Wade–Giles: Shih-t'ao; other department Yuan Ji (Chinese: 原濟; Chinese: 原济; pinyin: Yuán Jì), 1642 – 1707), born into the Ming dynasty imperial clan as Zhu Ruoji (朱若極), was a Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and ...
Shitao was a Chinese painter and theoretician who was, with Zhu Da, one of the most famous of the Individualist painters in the early Qing period. Like Zhu, Shitao was of the formerly imperial Ming line and became a Buddhist monk; but unlike Zhu he seems to have led a life typical of his class and
May 30, 2015 · Shitao was one of the most famous individualist painters of the early Qing dynasty, often mentioned along with Zhu Da (朱耷). The art he created was revolutionary in its transgressions of the rigidly codified techniques and styles that dictated what was considered beautiful.
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Shitao or Shi Tao (simplified Chinese: 石涛; traditional Chinese: 石濤; pinyin: Shí Tāo; Wade–Giles: Shih-t'ao; 1642–1707), born into the Ming dynasty imperial clan as Zhu Ruoji (朱若極), was a Chinese landscape painter in the early Qing Dynasty (1644–1911).
Shitao ("Stone Wave"), a scion of the Ming imperial family, became a monk and a painter after the Manchu conquest of 1644. After many years of wandering from place to place in the south and spending nearly three years in Beijing, he "returned home" to Yangzhou toward the end of 1692.
In the mid-1690s, after a life of wandering, Shitao settled permanently in Yangzhou, a bustling commercial city on the Grand Canal that eclipsed Suzhou during the eighteenth century as the most vigorous economic and cultural center in China.
Shitao or Shi Tao, born into the Ming dynasty imperial clan as Zhu Ruoji, was Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and landscape painter during the early Qing Dynasty. Born in the Quanzhou...
Nov 12, 2013 · Curator Joseph Scheier-Dolberg on "Returning Home" by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji). Featured artwork: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49173 Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.
This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length work on Shitao in a Western language, Jonathan Hay provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of this artist by undertaking a social history of his achievement.
Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China examines the work of one of the most famous of all Chinese artists. In this study, the first wide-ranging art-historical reevaluation of Shitao (1642-1707) in almost thirty years, Jonathan Hay undertakes a social history of the artist's achievement as a painter and theorist of painting.
