Luo Pin

CHINA, Anhui, Huangshan; Qing dynasty

Also known as Liang Feng or Dunfu, Luo Pin was a painter and poet. He was originally from Shexian county in Huangshan, but later moved to Yangzhou, Jiangsu. After the passing of his parents at a young age, Luo turned to studying art and literature. He quickly became an accomplished painter and poet and is regarded as the youngest of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Studying under Jin Nong, a master with whom he cultivated a deep personal connection, he developed a unique style of painting figures and Buddhist images, in addition to flowers, fruits, bamboo, landscapes, and plum blossoms. His works exhibited vast stylistic and conceptual variety. Luo’s wife and children were also artists, all painting plum blossoms, the family trade mark.
Luo’s paintings are on display in museums all over the world. His works Self-Portrait and Plum Flowers are collected at the Palace Museum in Beijing, while Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and Bright Spring Morning Sunshine are kept at the Shanghai Museum. A portrait of Vimalakirti is in the Chokaido Museum in Mie, Japan. The painting of Hanshan and Shide is kept at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas, USA, and a portrait of Jin Nong is kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, China.