Yang Buzhi
Appearance
Yang Buzhi was born in 1098 in Qingjiang, Jiangxi Province, in China. He died in 1167.
He is regarded as a master of ink paintings of plum blossoms in the Song Dynasty, and developed techniques which influenced later painters. He "resolved the depiction of flowering plum into a linear system built from brushstrokes and structures adapted from calligraphy" [1].
Four Stages of Blossoming Plum, circa 1165, is the only surviving work that can be attributed to him with certainty.