马远,生卒年不详,大致推算其应生在1140年以后,卒于1225年以后,字遥父,号钦山,原籍河中(今山西永济),出生于钱塘(今浙江杭州),其曾祖、祖父、伯、兄以及本人均为画院待诏,活动于南宋光宗、宁宗年间(约1190—1224年),是南宋著名的宫廷画家,与李唐、刘松年、夏圭并称为南宋四家。与北宋时期阳刚雄浑的绘画特征相反,南宋开始流行阴柔细腻的画风。马远是这种风格的代表人物,当时他在绘画界的地位无人能及。 Ma Yuan, birth and death year unknown, roughly projected should be born after 1140, died 1225 years later, the word distant father, nicknamed Qin Shan, origin River (now Yongji, Shanxi Province), was born in Qiantang (now Zhejiang Hangzhou) His great-grandfather, grandfather, uncle, brother and himself are both to be edict in the academy. Activities are in the Southern Song Dynasty Guangzong, Ningzong years (about 1190-1224), is a famous court painter of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Four Southern Song Dynasty. Contrary to the masculine painting features in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty began to have a soft and delicate style of painting. Ma Yuan is a representative of this style, when he was unparalleled in the field of painting.