- Yang Buzhi
Yang Buzhi was born in 1098 in
Qingjiang ,Jiangxi Province, inChina . He died in 1167.He is regarded as a master of ink paintings of plum blossoms in the
Song Dynasty , and developed techniques which influenced later painters. He "resolved the depiction of flowering plum into a linear system built from brushstrokes and structures adapted from calligraphy" [http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/article.html?section=art.016513.5.3.6.3.4] ."Four Stages of Blossoming Plum," circa 1165, is the only surviving work that can be attributed to him with certainty.
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