明代中期,以苏州地区沈周、文徵明为代表的吴门画派领袖画坛,时间达一个世纪左右。晚明时期,苏州地区仍然活跃着一批画家,他们继承吴门画派的绘画传统,默默地创作了大量作品。但与早期吴门博学尔雅的文人画家相比,晚明苏州画家的创作已经商品化,绘画成为他们谋生的一种手段,其身份已 In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Wu painting school leaders represented by Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming in Suzhou area reached a century or so. Late Ming period, Suzhou is still active in a group of painters, they inherit the Wu painting school tradition of painting, silently created a large number of works. However, compared with the literati painters of the early Wujiang school, the creation of Suzhou painters in the late Ming has been commercialized and the painting became a means of making a living by them.