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Entrepreneur, lay Buddhist (jushi) and politician, Wang Zhen was the head of many charitable and religious associations in Shanghai. This fervent commitment to Buddhism can be seen in the choice of subjects for paintings, readily drawn from the iconography of Buddhism.
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Buddhist Sagewas painted by Wang Zhen (also known as Wang Yiting). In China, the year of his birth was the “Sixth Year of the Tongzhi Period of the Great Qing” (1867 in the Western calendar); he died in the “Twenty-seventh year of the Chinese Republic” (1938). He was part of a generation that lived through traumatic times, with China buffeted by in...
Buddhist Sage carries a poetic inscription that identifies who and what we see in the painting.It reads: The “sage from the West” is the semi-legendary founder of the Chan sect of Buddhism, Bodhidharma, active in the early 5thcentury C.E. The earliest Chinese sources to mention him state that he was a visitor to China from “the Western regions,” a ...
Wang Zhen began painting early in life, his earliest surviving works dating from 1885, when he was in his late teens. He acknowledged as teachers two members of the Shanghai School, the more famous of these being Ren Yi, also known as Ren Bonian. Through his connection to this famous master, Wang Zhen can himself be thought of as a member of that s...
A successful Shanghai businessman as well as a devout Buddhist, Wang Zhen is best known for his paintings of Buddhist figures in the calligraphic brush manner of his mentor, Wu Changshi (1844–1927).
Wang Zhen had been active in campaigns to overthrow the Qing empire, to build a strong and independent China, but he abandoned the messy (and violent) world of politics after the Republic was founded in 1912.
Aug 12, 2016 · Despite the presence of Olympic champion Chen Ding and world champion Miguel Angel Lopez, the pre-race favourite on current form was China’s Wang Zhen and the winner at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in Rome back in May didn’t disappoint.
Aug 15, 2016 · Chinese Olympian Wang Zhen is now officially the World’s fastest walker after claiming the Olympic gold medal for this year’s 20-kilometer race walk at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Artist: Wang Zhen (Chinese, 1867–1938) Date: dated 1914. Culture: China. Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Dimensions: 60 x 15 7/8 in. (152.4 x 40.3 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986. Accession Number: 1986.267.152
