1254 - 1327

Kort om kunstneren

  • Also known as:
    • Tzu-ming Jen
    • Yueshandaoren
    • Renfa Ren
    • Yüeh-shan-tao-jen
    • Ren Ziming
  • Nationality: Yuan dynasty
  • Born: 1254, China, Yuan dynasty
  • Died: 1327
  • Museums on APS:
    • Cleveland Museum of Art
    • The Palace Museum
  • Top-ranked work: A Fat and a Thin Horse

Ren Renfa: Artist and Official

Ren Renfa was an expert of irrigation works, artist, and a government official of the Yuan dynasty. Born in Qinglong Town, Songjiang, he also served as a hydrological engineer, where his work included dredging an area in what is now Beijing to improve the water supply and leading a team to build embankments after the Yellow River burst its banks.

Notable Works

His paintings include subjects such as horses, people, flowers, and birds. One prominent work is Chu Yu Tu (Coming out of the Stable), a painting on silk with color that depicts three officials of the royal stables leading four horses out of a stable. The figures in this work are dressed in Tang style costumes.

Another significant work is Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback, a two-metre scroll depicting five princes on horseback with four attendants. This piece includes Li Longji, who later became the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. Ren Renfa also produced the work Fat and Lean Horses, which contains an inscription explaining that the fat horse represents the self-satisfied, wealthy official while the lean one represents the humble, poor, self-deprecating official.

Spørgsmål og svar

Kan jeg studere Ren Renfas farvebrug på tværs af alle værker?

Ren Renfas farvebrug på tværs af de værker, der er listet på denne hjemmeside, kan studeres på kunstnerens Farvepalettens DNA-side.

Findes der en virtuel 3D-tour af Ren Renfas værker?

3D-galleri for Ren Renfa er en side, der fremviser kunstnerens værker i et virtuelt tredimensionelt galleri.

Hvilke andre navne eller pseudonymer bruger Ren Renfa?

Ren Renfa optræder under de alternative navne Tzu-ming Jen, Yueshandaoren, Renfa Ren, Yüeh-shan-tao-jen, Ren Ziming.

Kunstquiz

Der er kun ét korrekt svar på hvert spørgsmål.

Spørgsmål 1:
In which dynasty did Ren Renfa serve as a government official?
Spørgsmål 2:
What is the pseudonym of Ren Renfa?
Spørgsmål 3:
Which painting by Ren Renfa depicts three officials leading four horses out of a stable?
Spørgsmål 4:
Ren Renfa was born in which modern-day district of Shanghai?
Spørgsmål 5:
According to the text, whose painting style is comparable to Ren Renfa's paintings of horses?