葉肖岩
馬遠様式の抑制された小景
葉肖岩は宋代の画家で、銭塘（現在の杭州）出身であり、13世紀初頭、南宋の宝祐年間（1253-1258年）に活動しました。彼は模写を得意とし、馬遠の様式で小規模な人物画を描きました。その画風は馬遠に似ていましたが、やや抑制的であり、しばしば濡れ筆の技法を用いて岩石や山々に淡く彩色しました。 Very few of his works have survived, and there is little recorded about his life. A friend, Gu Feng, even wrote a poem for him saying, 'The brushwork is wonderfully divine, capturing faces truly,' suggesting he was a modest folk painter. Ye Xiaoyan’s representative work, the album "Ten Views of West Lake," is now housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The album is painted on silk with colors, each leaf measuring 23.9 cm in height and 20.2 cm in width. It combines poetry and painting to depict the ten scenic spots of West Lake. The mountains and rocks are painted using the 'da fu pi' axe-cut method, focusing on shading, with simple but elegant brushwork. This album is clearly documented in the "Shiqu Baoji Xu Bian".