Huang Tingjian
1045
—
1105
Chinese Song Dynasty artist and poet (1045–1105)
Huang Tingjian was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and poet of the Song dynasty. He is predominantly known as a calligrapher, and is also admired for his painting and poetry. He was one of the Four Masters of the Song Dynasty, and was a younger friend of Su Shi and influenced by his and his friends' practice of literati painting, calligraphy, and poetry; regarded as the founder of the Jiangxi school of poetry.