China Southern Tang and Northern Song Dynasty painter Ju Ran monk. Original name unknown, year of birth and death unknown. He was born in Zhong Ling and Jiangning. In his early years, he became a monk at Kaiyuan Temple in Jiangning. After the death of the Southern Tang and Song Dynasties, Li Yu came to Kaifeng and lived in Kaibao Temple. Good at landscapes, learning from Dong Yuan, specializing in painting Jiangnan landscapes. Most peaks are painted with alum heads and there are many pebbles at the foot of the mountain. Covered with sparse vines and grass, they are placed in dangerous bridges and small houses with narrow paths, which is interesting and quiet. Deeply loved by scholars. Painting rocks with linen robes and beautiful pen and ink is a direct biography of Dong Yuan. This painting style has a great influence on the development of landscape painting in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and even in modern times. From generation to generation, Wan He Cang Song, Qiu Shan Wen, Shan Jutu. Painting landscapes, learning from Dong Yuan, but the style is different from Dong Yuan. He is good at painting foggy weather in the south of the Yangtze River and landscapes with light ink and haze. After the Southern Tang Dynasty, he went to the Song Dynasty, then to Bianjing, lived in Kaibao Temple, and painted a small mural of Lan Yan in the academy, which was praised by people. One of his important characteristics is that the foothills of the forest are dotted with pebbles, beautifully carved, clear and moist, as if they had just been washed. His painting style has made great contributions to later Jiangnan painting school, and he is a creative artist. Later generations called him Dong Ju together with Dong Yuan, which was the main school of southern landscape painting in the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, and had a great influence on later generations. The extant works include Qiu Shan Wen, Wan He Song Feng Tu and Layered Cliff Trees. , silk, ink and wash. Length 156.2 cm, width 77.2 cm. It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The whole painting depicts a scene of mountains and trees. Alum heads meet, and a hut is hidden in the bushes. One of the elders sat cross-legged and carefree. The whole work gives people the impression that the color is deep, dry and moist, the pen and ink are beautiful and moist, the style is elegant and the artistic conception is deep. This work is quite different from the original work of Ju Ran Akiyama, because there is no seal of the author, so some people suspect that someone else did it. Ju Ran's life is the life of his master Ju Ran to expand the style of Dong Yuan's ink landscape painting. Originally from Jianye and Zhong Ling. To be sure, Ju Ran once worked in Kaiyuan Temple in this county. About this time, Ju Ran became the owner of Dongyuan. In the eighth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Li Yu was demoted to Bianjing. The Hanlin Painting Academy in the Southern Tang Dynasty naturally disintegrated, and many painters in the Academy were forced to work in the Hanlin Painting Academy in the Song Dynasty, such as Xu Chongzi and Dong Yu, the grandchildren of Xu Xizhi. In this case, Ju Ran came to Beijing from Jianye and lived in Kaibao Temple as a monk. His paintings became famous in one fell swoop, and he served as a famous painting critic and story writer for Du Zhi Cai Yuanwai. The ancient peak in the painting is steep and beautiful. In addition, there are pebbles such as pine, cypress, grass and bamboo all over the foothills of the forest, which set each other off and lead to a quiet villa through a path, so that the wild scenery is fully prepared. Liu Daochun painted murals on the north wall of the Academy of Sciences, the highest cultural institution in the Song Dynasty, which was praised by the literati at that time. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Ju Ran sought his artistic position in the north by imitating Li Cheng's works, such as Li Cheng and Dongyuan, but his interest was still painting in the south of the Yangtze River. Ju Ran's painting skills are far inferior to Dong Yuan's. He specializes in landscape. Ju Ran's mountains and rivers, though introspective, are unique. Take the existing landscape paintings handed down from Ju Ran as an example.
Because Ju Ran Ju Ran's artistic activities span the north and south, with different painting styles, there are two different painting styles for landscape painting. One is the famous painting axis of the sacred dynasty, the painting axis of Xuanhe and the wind axis. These ancient paintings have different degrees of integration with the modeling, composition, pen and ink of northern landscape paintings, which can promote Ju Ran's artistic appearance in the north and influence on later generations in the north. Second, roll the autumn mountain to ask the picture, and there is still the charm of Jiangnan ink landscape. There is no direct evidence as to whether these two ancient paintings are authentic works of Ju Ran. But what is certain is that most of them are representative works of the Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as the representative works of Ju Ran School in the Song Dynasty.