About Yang Buzhi
Lived 1098 – 1167 (aged 68–69). Yang Buzhi was a Chinese painter, calligrapher and ci lyric writer.
Yang Buzhi (1098–1167) was born in Qingjiang (modern Huai'an), Jiangxi Province, in China.
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".
Four Stages of Blossoming Plum, circa 1165, is the only surviving work that can be attributed to him with certainty.
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Who was Yang Buzhi?
Chinese painter (1098-1167)
When was Yang Buzhi born?
Yang Buzhi was born in 1098.
When did Yang Buzhi die?
Yang Buzhi died in 1167.
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Yang Buzhi was a painter, calligrapher and ci lyric writer.
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Yang Buzhi was Chinese.
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