CH'IU YING

born c. 1494 died c. 1552, , T'ai-ts'ang, Kiangsu province, China Pinyin Qiu Ying Chinese painter noted for the kung-pi brush technique of producing highly detailed figure and architectural paintings, as well as flower studies. Ch'iu Ying did not pursue the other characteristic arts and activities of the man of letters that Chinese critics believed were marks of the great painter; but he earned their respect for the dexterity, representational skill, and refinement of feeling evident in his paintings. He lived in the Su-chou region, home of the revered Wu school of painting, and counted among his artist associates Chou Ch'en, who may have been his teacher, and T'ang Yin.