Ma Lin (painter)
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Ma Lin (simplified Chinese: 马麟; traditional Chinese: 馬麟; pinyin: Mǎ Lín; Wade–Giles: Ma Lin) (ca. 1180 – after 1256[1]) was a Chinese court painter during the Song Dynasty active during the early to mid 13th century.[2] He was the son of the famous Chinese painter Ma Yuan,[3] from whom he learned the art of painting.[4]
One of his best known paintings is entitled "Night Outing with Candles", which depicts a gentleman sitting in the doorway of a pavilion, facing four pairs of tall candles amongst flowering crab apple trees. It illustrates a poem by the famous (dissident poet and artist) Su Shih: "My fear is that in the depths of night, the flowers will fall asleep and depart, so I light the tall candles to illuminate their red beauty.".[5] A full moon in the sky overhead confirms its nighttime setting.
Notes
- ↑ Wen C. Fong Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8Th-14th Century (1992), p. 299
- ↑ Barnhart: Page 133.
- ↑ "Ma Lin - Quietly Listening to Wind in the Pines". Retrieved 2012-08-05.
- ↑ Yuheng Bao, Ben Liao, Letitia Lane, Renaissance in China (2006), p. 61
- ↑ Wang Yao-t'ing, Looking at Chinese Painting, Nigensha Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (first English edition 1996), p, 88. ISBN 4-544-02066-2
References
- Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6
External links
- Sung and Yuan paintings, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Ma Lin (see list of paintings)