Ma Yuan (painter)

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Ma Yuan (Chinese: 马远; Pinyin: Mǎ Yuǎn (1160–1165 to 1225) was an influential Chinese landscape painter whose work, together with that of Xia Gui, formed the basis of the Ma-Xia school of painting.

Ma Yuan was born in Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He occasionally painted flowers, but is best known for landscape painting, his lyrical and romantic interpretation becoming the model for later painters. He was a master of “one-corner” composition, to the extent that he was nicknamed "One-Corner Ma." Ma Yuan was one of the Ma family of painters.