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JU LIAN (1828-1904)
Using the courtesy name Shigang, sobriquets Guquan, Geshan
Laoren, Geshan Qiaozia, Luohu Sanren, he was native of Yangzhou,
Jiangsu Province. Past generations of his family were officials from
Guangdong, and they later settled in Panyu. Ju Lian studied painting
under his elder brother Ju Chao at a young age, and the Ju brothers,
known as “Two Jus”, were the founders of the Lingnan school. Ju
Lian liked to paint Lingnan flowers, insects, vegetables, fruits and
fish, employing the “boneless” technique of Yun Shouping and his
technique of “adding water or powder to still-drying pigment”, giving
flowers and leaves a yin-yang perspective of light and shadow, that
greatly enriched the expressionist techniques of traditional painting.

When drawing insects, he “would always pin the insect at its abdomen
with a needle or put it in a glass box and make sketches.” Gao Jianfu
praised Ju Lian as follows, “whatever his eyes focus on, he can
paint it. Everything and every wonder can be drawn. It is natural and
seamless to make an interesting painting which can break the shackles
of past traditional ideas.” In 1864, Ju Lian returned to his hometown
with Ju Chao and built the “Shixiangyuan”, a painting academy. Their
they ran a school to teach paintings, gaining a growing reputation
and trained numerous outstanding students such as Gao Jianfu, Gao
Qifeng and Chen Shuren.

居廉（1828-1904）
字士剛，號古泉、隔山老人、隔山樵子、羅湖散人。原籍江蘇揚州，
先輩來粵做官，遂落籍番禺。自幼隨從兄居巢習畫，與巢並稱「二
居」，乃嶺南畫派奠基人。
喜狀寫嶺南特色花卉草蟲、蔬果水族，以南田沒骨法兼施撞水、撞粉
之技巧，使花卉、枝葉產生向光和背光的陰陽效果，極大豐富了傳統
繪畫的表現手法。畫昆蟲時「每將昆蟲以針插腹部，或蓄儲玻璃箱，
對之描寫」，高劍父稱其「眼之所到，筆便能到，無物不寫，無奇不
寫……施諸畫面，涉筆成趣，極其自然，天衣無縫，可算打破過去傳
統思想的束縛了」。一八六四年，居廉随居巢返回故里，於隔山修建
「十香园」，開館課徒，聲名日彰，桃李天下，高劍父、高奇峰及陳
樹人皆出其帳下。

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