1. Living or being a guest in Shanghai,

Second, the work belongs to the Shanghai style, appealing to both refined and popular tastes, with bright colors. The painting theme is mainly flowers and birds (there are also figures or landscapes, but Shanghai Chinese painting is mainly flowers and birds).

Third, the native place and birthplace of the painter mainly come from Zhejiang, as well as Jiangsu or Shanghai. Apart from these three places, only a few Shanghai painters come from other places, which is also the lineage and regional characteristics of Shanghai painters.

Famous painters living in Shanghai at that time were Xu Gu, Ren Xiong, Ren Xun, Ren Yi (Bai Nian), Wu Changshuo and others. Most of them come from civilian background, selling paintings as their profession, and their creative themes are rich, and their pictures are fresh and popular, which is very popular among the civilian class. It is in sharp contrast with the orthodox court painting school centered on Beijing.

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The maritime painting school inherited the traditional skills of Tang and Song Dynasties, absorbed the strengths of Chen Chun (Bai Yang), Xu Wei (Ivy), Chen Hongshou (Lao Lian), Badashanren, Shi Tao and "Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics" in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was influenced by epigraphy in Qing Dynasty.

Painting style: bold and unrestrained, but also rich in simplicity. Influenced by western artistic concepts, his works are rich, delicate and lively.

Drawing skills: Drawing lessons from folk and western painting art, he boldly reformed and innovated Chinese painting, and his works reflected the flavor of life of the times, making him unique outside the "orthodoxy", integrating Chinese and Western painting, and forming his own school.

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