Gao Xiang. Gao Xiang was a Chinese painter from Ganquan, present-day Yangzhou in Jiangsu.
He belongs to the canon of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou; a group of painters in the early Qing period who rejected orthodox ideas about painting in favor of an expressive style of their own. Gao lived in poverty, although he was a skilled painter of landscapes and bird and flower paintings.
He was particularly skilled in painting plum blossom. Gao had great admiration for the painting of Shitao.
He belongs to the canon of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou; a group of painters in the early Qing period who rejected orthodox ideas about painting in favor of an expressive style of their own. Gao lived in poverty, although he was a skilled painter of landscapes and bird and flower paintings.
He was particularly skilled in painting plum blossom. Gao had great admiration for the painting of Shitao.
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