葉肖岩
師法馬遠的小景人物畫
葉肖巖是宋代畫家，原籍錢塘（今杭州），活躍於13世紀初南宋寶祐年間（1253-1258）。他擅長臨摹作品，並以馬遠風格創作小型人物場景。其畫風與馬遠相似，但更為含蓄，常運用濕筆技法為山石輕施淡彩。 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".