Li Shida
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Li Shida (Template:Zh, c. 1540Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".), was a Chinese painter of the Ming dynasty. A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, he obtained the position of a jinshi in the imperial examination in 1574 during the reign of the Wanli Emperor.
Biography
Li was born at a year around 1540. He grew up in Xingguo.[1]
Painting
Shida painted figures and landscape paintings. He also did flower painting (which he claimed he wasn't good at.[2]
He wrote an essay on five qualities he believed helped him paint. He claimed they were ability, sincerity, rarity, depth and harmony.[3]