Great Artist: Zi Zan 1306-1374

     

Ni Zan was a famous artist that lived during the Yuan Dynasty. He was raised by a wealthy family and lived in Jiangsu Province. Zan would keep a lot of antiques, paintings, poems, and calligraphy. He was a very artistic person. Since he traveled a lot with his family and needed places to stay he would go to other persons houses and pay them back with his beautiful paintings At first he would always paint riverbanks, and ink sketch work. Then later after when years went bye he would start to make paintings of bamboo. Every brush stroke he made had an emotional statement.