Wang Shen (Song dynasty)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Shen was a Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (Murck, 126-156). He is very well known as a painter, with some surviving paintings. He is also a poet, with some surviving verses.

Early life

Wang Shen was from Taiyuan city, in Shanxi.

Painting

Further information: Shanshui

Wang Shen was an accomplished landscape painter in the Chinese tradition.

Poetry

Although less remembered as a poet than a painter, Wang Shen traded rhymes with Su Shi, one of the most renowned poets of the Song dynastic era, if not all time.

See also

• Classical Chinese poetry
• Crow Terrace Poetry Trial
• Emperor Shenzong of Song
• Huang Tingjian
• Li Cheng (painter)
• Mi Fu
• Su Shi
• Xiaoxiang poetry

References

• Murck, Alfreda (2000). Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute. ISBN 0-674-00782-4.