Liang Kai is most famous for originating or developing the "Xie Yi" (sometimes translated as "sketch style") of painting, where the objective is to evoke the subject or atmosphere with minimal use of detail; it requires a profound mastery of painting technique and perfect concentration, but also allows for the beauty of accidental effects. The Xie Yi style is closely associated with the "sudden enlightenment", "mindfulness", and "spontaneity" aspects of this school of Buddhism. Works generally attributed to Liáng Kǎi include: painting of the poet
Li Bai, the
Drunken Celestial (
A Sage),
The Sixth Patriarch Cutting Bamboo, and in a more academic style, a series called the
Eight Eminent Monks paintings.. File:Liang Kai - Li Bai Strolling.jpg|Li Bai Strolling File:Immortal in Splashed Ink.jpg|Drunken Celestial File:Liang Kai-Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains.jpg|Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains File:南宋 梁楷 澤畔行吟圖 團扇-Poet strolling by a marshy bank MET DP154133.jpg|Poet strolling by a marshy bank File:宋梁楷東籬高士圖軸 Gentleman of the Eastern Fence K2A000127N000000000PAA.png|Gentleman of the Eastern Fence == See also ==