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Jing Hao
Late Tang and Five Dynasties landscape painter who lived as a recluse in the Taihang Mountains and wrote the treatise Notes on Brushwork
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Zi Haoran · Hao Honggu Zi
Jing Hao, courtesy name Haoran, styled Honggu Zi, came from Qinshui in Henei, in modern Shanxi, and withdrew from the turmoil of the late Tang to farm at Honggu in the Taihang Mountains. Learned and fond of antiquity, he painted landscapes and said that Wu Daozi had brushwork without ink and Xiang Rong ink without brushwork, and that he meant to combine the strengths of both; Guan Tong studied under him. His treatise Notes on Brushwork sets out six essentials: spirit, resonance, thought, scenery, brush and ink. Mount Lu, a towering hanging-scroll landscape in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is attributed to him.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active from the late Tang into the Later Liang