國畫藝術之四 (Chinese painting art example 4)

Chien Shuan ( 錢選 ) ca. 1235 - before 1307 (Pinyin: Qian Xuan)

Chien Shuan was one of a group of poets and cultivated scholars active in the late Sung Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty known as the Eight Talents of Wuxing. A renowned flower and bird painter, he was also good at painting landscape and figures. He often used heavy mineral pigments with line-and-color-wash technique in his "blue-and-green" landscape style.