Leng Ming (1669-1742), Zi Jichen, History of Kinmen Painting, a native of Jiaozhou, Shandong, a disciple of Jiao Bingzhen. Good at painting people, boundary paintings, especially fine women. The paintings are beautiful and elegant, the pen and ink are clean, the colors are beautiful, and their painting methods are also written with work belts, decorating the house utensils, and the pen is extremely delicate and vivid.
Leng Ming was the patriarch of the Three Dynasties of the Imperial Court Academy, and his outstanding performance in painting technique was appreciated by Kangxi. However, in the Yongzheng period, he was snubbed and expelled from the court painting academy. The real reason for Leng Ming's expulsion from the academy was because Yongzheng did not like Chinese painting mixed with Western painting methods, and Leng Ming and his teacher Jiao Bingzhen and others were representatives of Western painting techniques. At the same time as Leng Ming, xu Mingshi and other painters were expelled from the academy, and Lang Shining's apprentices Chashiba, Fu Hong, and Wang Wenzhi, who also served in the academy, were also sent back to the banner. Qianlong was a discerning emperor who had noticed Leng Ming's works before he ascended to the throne. Therefore, after he came to power, the name of Leng Ming suddenly appeared in the work file of the Qing Palace Manufacturing Office, and it was not uncommon, as many as dozens. In his later years, Leng Mei created more than 50 or 60 works and paintings in the early Qianlong Office, and its subject matter was very extensive, including figures, Buddhist Taoism, birds and beasts, ma long, architectural gardens, court utensils, historical stories and so on.
Leng Ming can be described as an all-round painter, otherwise he would not have become a leading painter during the Kangxi period, and he would not have received such special favors and attention in Qianlong. In the painting activities of the court for nearly half a century, because of its outstanding talent and outstanding achievements, Leng Ming was quite valued and appreciated by the supreme ruler, so the Qing people said that Leng Ming "enshrined the inner court with paintings for the longest time". He is both a prolific painter and a long-lived painter, occupying an important position in the history of China's court painting academy. Therefore, Qing Dynasty painting critics always mentioned Leng Ming together with Jiao Bingzhen and Shen Yu as three famous court painters in the late Kangxi Dynasty.
Leng Ming's dedication to the painting academy has experienced the three emperors of Kang, Yong and Qian, and has been painting for the Yuanmingyuan for many years, but unfortunately, many of Leng Ming's elaborate works in the Yuanmingyuan in that year were reduced to ashes in an unprecedented looting with the looting and burning of the British and French allies!
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