Luo Ping

Luo Ping (Chinese罗 聘/罗 聘, Pinyin Luo Ping, * 1733, † 1799) was a Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty, in Gan Quan (甘泉, Yangzhou today ) lived. His style name was ' Vanishing Lord "(遁 夫, Dùnfu ) and his pseudonyms " two peaks " (两 峰, Liǎng Feng ) and" monk of the temple flower " (花 之 寺僧, Hua zhi Sì Seng ). Luo Ping was trained in painting under Jin Nong. He painted portraits, Buddhist motifs, flowers and landscapes, and was the youngest of the so-called Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, which developed a freer technique. His most famous work is a 25 -meter-long handscroll entitled spirits amusement.

Life and work

Luo Ping, whose talent was recognized early as a poet and gave him access to sophisticated artistic circles of his hometown, was an orphan. At age 19, he married the poet and painter Fang Wanyi (方婉仪, 1732-1779 ), with whom he had a daughter and two sons, who were also artists. All painted plum blossoms, the family symbol. Five years after his marriage he met Jin Nong, who became his teacher and mentor. In the second half of his life, Luo often visited Beijing, where his works attracted attention. As a devout Buddhist Luo Ping also painted frequently unusual depictions of Buddha.

At the end of the 1760s finished monumental role spirits amusement Luo Ping figured ghosts, goblins and ghosts, which often have human traits. Luo, who claimed to have myself seen such creatures, performed the role always with him and left numerous personalities of his time comments write it. The illustrated anatomically correct skeletons probably date back to the anatomist Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica whose work was published in 1630 in a Chinese edition.