叶肖岩
师法马远的小景人物画
叶肖岩是宋代画家，原籍钱塘（今杭州），活跃于13世纪初南宋宝祐年间（1253-1258）。他擅长临摹作品，并以马远风格创作小型人物场景。其画风与马远相似，但更为含蓄，常运用湿笔技法为山石轻施淡彩。 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".