画家黄慎是“扬州八怪”中最具代表性的人物之一。他是一个全能的职业画家,人物、山水、花鸟皆有所擅长。黄慎早期画工笔,有较高的造型能力。但在文人画滥觞的时代,人们往往厌弃工笔,甚至将其与工匠画同列。为了卖画就必须适应形势,尤其黄慎到了扬州以后,其画风有明显转变。据略晚于黄慎的扬州书画理论家谢堃在其《书画见闻录》中说他:“初至扬,仿萧晨、韩范辈工笔人物。书法钟繇,以至模山范水,其道不行。于是闭户三年,变楷为行,变工为写,于是稍稍有倩托者。又三年,变行书为大草,变人物为泼墨大写,于是道之大行矣。”谢堃的这一说法虽不十分准确, Painter Huang Shen is one of the most representative figures in “Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou”. He is an all-around professional painter, character, landscape, flowers and birds are good at. Huang Shen early painting pen, a higher modeling ability. However, in the era of literati painting, people often dislike the art of writing and even paint it with artisans. In order to sell paintings, we must adapt to the situation, especially after Huang Shen arrived in Yangzhou, his style of painting changed significantly. According to Xie Kun, a painting and calligraphy theorist of Yangzhou, who was slightly later than Huang Shen, said in his “Painting and Calligraphy Herald Record”: "Chu Yang, imitating Hsiao Chen and Han Fan generation of workers, calligraphy Zhong Kui, Road does not work. So closed for three years, change Kai for the line, change jobs for the write, so a slight Qiantuo who another three years, changing the line for the big grass, change people ink-colored upper case, so the road to carry on. Kun’s argument is not very accurate,