Ma Yuan

Ma Yuan (c.1160–1225), Chinese Southern Sung period artist, who created some of China's greatest landscape paintings in ink. A contemporary of the painter Xia Gui (also spelled Hsia Kuei), Ma Yuan was noted for his spare and dramatically asymmetrical compositions. His romantic landsape style influenced the Japanese ink painters Shbun (early 15th century) and Sessh, and the early masters of the Kan school during the Muromachi period (1338–1573).