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| Liang Kai (c1175 - c1246) |
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Artists who influenced Liang Kai | Chinese artist who studied with, and then excelled, his master, Jia Shigu. In 1210, he was awarded the rank of Painter-in-Attendance at court, but he refused it. Instead, calling himself "Madman Liang", he spent his life drinking and painting. Eventually, he retired and became a Zen monk. Liang is credited with inventing the Zen school of Chinese art. One of his more famous pieces "Bud ... more (Google) | Artists who were influenced by Liang Kai | |
 Ma Yuan |  Daoist Scripture Frontispiece (detail) (Museum of Fine Arts) |  Poet Strolling by Marshy Bank (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |  Xia Gui |
 Li Gonglin |  Sakyamuni Descending Mountain (Tokyo National Museum) |  Winter Landscape with Horsemen (Freer Gallery of Art) |  Lin Liang |
 Patriarch Cutting Bamboo (Tokyo National Museum) | |||