Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
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Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (揚州八怪 / 扬州八怪) (Ba Guai: Hànyǔ pinyin for "Eight weird") is the name for a group of eight Chinese painters known in the Qing for rejecting the orthodox ideas about painting in favor of a style deemed expressive and individualist.
The term was also used because they each had strong personalities at variance with the conventions of their own time. Most of them were from impoverished or troubled backgrounds. Still the term is, generally, more a statement about their style rather than being a judgment of them as personally being among [history's noted eccentrics.
The eight had an influence and association with painters like Gao Fenghan, as well as several others. Their works are prized so have spawned many forgers.
[edit] The Eight
- Wāng ShìShèn (汪士慎) (1686-1759)
- Huáng Shèn (黄慎) (1687-1768)
- Lĭ Shàn (李鱓/李鳝) (born around 1686, some uncertainty, and died 1756)
- Jīn Nóng (金农) (1687-1764)
- Luō Pìn (罗聘) (1733-1799)
- Gāo Xiáng (高翔) (1688-1753)
- Zhèng Xiè (郑燮) also known as Zhèng BănQiáo (郑板桥) (1693-1765)
- Lĭ FāngYīng (李方膺) (1696 - 1755)
