A native of Wuxian (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province), Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili, was originally from Jinchang County, Liangzhou. Famous painter, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty.
In the twenty-first year of Chenghua (1485), he won the first place in the senior high school entrance examination of Suzhou Prefecture and entered the government school. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, he won the first place in Tianfu after having obtained the provincial examination (Xie Yuan) and went to Beijing to take the examination. In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, he was involved in the fraud case of Xu Jing's examination hall, was sentenced to prison and demoted to a petty official in Zhejiang and Francisco. From then on, he lost his enterprising spirit, wandered around the rivers and lakes, was buried in poetry and painting, and eventually became a generation of famous painters. Tang Yin lived in poverty in his later years and relied on his friends for help. 1February 2, Jiajing passed away at the age of 54.
Li Tang and Liu Songnian, which belong to the patriarchal clan system of landscape painting, integrate the North and South painting schools, with meticulous brushwork, sparse arrangement and elegant and handsome style. Portrait painters inherit the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, beautiful posture and accurate modeling; He is also a freehand brushwork figure, and his pen is concise and interesting. His flower-and-bird paintings are good at freehand brushwork and free and easy. Calligraphy is fantastic and handsome, taken from Zhao Mengfu.
In painting, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming and Chou Ying are also called "Wumen Fourth Hospital", also known as "Ming Sijia". Poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing, is called "four gifted scholars in Wuzhong".
Tang Yin seldom indicates the year when he paints, and his painting style changes irregularly, so it is difficult to infer the time when he painted, and it is also difficult to divide the changing process of his painting style by time. As far as subject matter is concerned, Tang Yin's paintings mainly include landscape painting, figure painting, flower-and-bird freehand brushwork and so on.
On the one hand, Tang Yin's artistic achievement lies in breaking the stereotype, accepting both the North-South School of Painting, the Southern Song Dynasty Academy Painting and the Yuan Dynasty literati landscape painting, mainly learning from the Southern Song Dynasty and Liu Songnian Academy Painting School, and learning from the rigorous and vigorous painting style of the Song Dynasty. At the same time, he participated in Xia Gui's composition and pen and ink techniques, extensively dabbled in Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, Guo He, Huang and Wang Meng in the Northern Song Dynasty, and gradually formed his own style. The layout of the picture is rigorous and orderly, the shape is real and vivid, the mountains are majestic, the rocks are steep, the axe is chopped, the brushwork is vigorous, and the pen and ink are dripping. On the other hand, I have personal observation and real feelings about natural mountains and rivers. Representative works include Loneliness in the Sunset, Spring Mountain Companion, Empty Pavilion at Night, Apricot Blossom House, etc.
Tang Yin's figure painting has superb realistic skills, accurate images and unique charm. Ming Lu Hua commented that his figure painting is "Qian Shunju, Du Chang (Du Jin) is a layman". There are two kinds of ladies' paintings, one is fine lines, bright colors and high weather, which comes from the institutional paintings of the Southern Song Dynasty, such as the prostitute map of Wang Shu Palace. Exquisite brushwork and heavy colors, with the "three white methods" to dye the face of ladies and gentlemen, highlighting the thick coating of ladies and gentlemen. The lines of clothes are drawn with fine and smooth iron lines, and the clothes are painted with rich colors, which makes the front edge gorgeous. It vividly depicts the famous prostitutes scrambling to dress up, competing for beauty and coquettish, and is an excellent painting of ladies by Tang Yin. The other was born out of the courtyard of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the pen and ink were fluent. The brushwork is vigorous, the lines are undulating, and the beauty is simplified. Representative works include Autumn Fan Map and Li Duanduan Tu Tu. In the Song Dynasty, Li's description of flowing clouds and flowing water is combined with Yan Hui's description of broken reeds, and the picture is full of rhythm.
Tang Yin ink freehand brushwork flowers and birds, Mo Yun bright and clean, elegant style and full of realism. The picture of dried grass carp, as the representative, is composed of broken branches, and the branches of dead trees bend and extend from the bottom right to the top, full of colors, old and straight. Draw a myna perched on a branch with ink accumulation, with a bald pen and leaves, one or two thin vines and a few wild bamboos. In the upper right corner, the poem reads: "The mountains are boundless and the birds are singing in the spring rain." Painting with calligraphy, painting with pen instead of description, strong brushwork, beautiful shape, concise and accurate pen and ink, elegant and free and easy. "Rain Bamboo Map", the picture is mainly composed of two groups of thick leaves, then light leaves, and then a few leaves echo, all the leaves rush down and the rain hits the bamboo leaves. In addition, there are Mumei map, Fengzhu map, Waterfront Lotus map and Apricot Flower map.
Tang Yin's paintings combine the techniques of the Song Dynasty's courtyard and the charm of Yuan people's pen and ink, showing a bold and graceful but elegant character. The composition is concise and clear, the picture is well-defined, dense and well-organized, the pen is clear, thin and not light, powerful and rhythmic, and has the beauty of combining rigidity with softness. The ink color is dripping and changeable, and there is harmony; The artistic conception is simple and elegant, beautiful and free from vulgarity.
Tang Yin's poetry and prose win with talent and emotion. His poems are full of travel, painting and sentimental works. In his early years, his works were neat and beautiful, with the breath of parallel prose in the Six Dynasties. After the publication of topic cases, most of them are outrageous works, which use a lot of spoken language and have a fresh artistic conception, often containing pride and grievances. He is the author of the Collection of Six Confucian Interpretations, and the Complete Works of Six Confucian Interpretations was compiled in Qing Dynasty.
There are more than 600 poems, including Song of Endurance, Wu Shang Tianguan Book, Song of Four Seasons in Jiangnan, Song of Peach Blossom Temple, Song of a Year, Song of Leisure and so on. There are singers in the poetry anthology, such as "Flower Wine", "Send a Prostitute", "Cry a Prostitute Xu Su", "Send a Prostitute to People" and "To Wang Liren". Chen Jiru's "Taiping Flower Green" Note: "A thousand words in Tang Bohu's" Romantic Escape "are all brothel game words." There is no evidence that the book has been lost.
Besides poetry and prose, Tang Yin also tried to compose music, mostly in the form of folk songs. Because of his profound literary and artistic accomplishment in many aspects, he has experienced many ups and downs, has a profound understanding of life and society, and is known for his taste for both refined and popular tastes.