Painter from Sichuan known for bold splashed-ink (泼墨) landscapes. He spent years copying the 敦煌 cave murals, forged old masters well enough to fool experts, and settled in Taiwan.
Zhang Daqian settled in Taiwan in his later years.
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大千 is the Buddhist name he was given as a monk for about three months at twenty, from 大千世界 'the vast universe'. 徐悲鸿 praised him as 五百年来一大千, 'one Daqian in five hundred years'.
