奚冈，工书法，擅篆刻治印，宗秦汉，9岁就能隶书，后来行、草、篆、隶，无一不精，而

以绘画名于世。他的山水画潇洒自得，花卉兰竹超逸脱俗。师法丁敬，并有发展，风格清隽，为浙派印人之杰出者。与丁敬、黄易、蒋仁齐名，为杭郡四名家，再加陈豫钟、陈鸿寿、赵之琛、钱松合为西泠八家。亦工诗善书，长于绘事，性孤介，非其人不予。书兼工四体，真书法褚遂良，古隶笔意超逸，高出流辈。山水潇洒清润，得董其昌法。他性格旷达耿直，不求功名，藐视权贵，终老布衣。他的书画成名后，求画者络绎不绝。但对官吏富豪重金收买，不屑一顾。浙江巡抚阮元多方托人求与谋面，仍未如愿。老年入李流芳一派。花卉有恽寿平气韵，兰竹亦超脱，为浙中画家巨擘。曾作《溪山素秋图》、《蕉竹幽兰图》、《春林归翼图》等轴。传世画迹有《蕉林学书图》卷、《题襟馆图》卷，现均藏故宫博物院。著有《冬花庵烬余稿》。近年关于奚冈的研究，以西泠八家研究专家朱琪的《奚冈的家世、生平与篆刻艺术》（《第三届西泠印社孤山证印国际印学峰会论文集》）、《关于奚冈的几个人生面向》、《奚冈年表》等最为深入，并著有《奚冈研究》。

《岩居秋爽图》

 《岩居秋爽图》轴，清，奚冈绘，纸本，设色，纵113.5cm，横48.5cm。

图绘峰峦高耸、庭轩虚敞的江南秋景。奚冈的山水画在宗法元四家的基础上又上溯五代董源、巨然，下逮明人董其昌及清人王原祁诸公，萃其逸韵而自成一格。此图是他法黄公望（号井西道人）笔意所作，笔法清秀，润色淡雅，意境深远，颇得黄氏画作中雅洁淡逸之趣。

款署：“仿井西老人岩居秋爽图。嘉庆丙辰小春。蒙泉外史奚冈。”钤“奚冈之印”阴阳文印、“蒙泉外史”白文印。

“丙辰”为清嘉庆元年（1796年），作者时年51岁。

 乾隆皇帝多次巡游江南，浙江督抚为迎接圣驾在西湖岸边建造了一座行宫，由于奚冈的

名气较大，地方官员就请奚冈前去宫内作画。奚冈对此坚决回绝，督抚一怒之下，就派人执械将他押至行宫。奚冈不畏权势，坚决地说：“焉有画而系之者？头可斩，画不可得！” 督抚的幕僚十分钦佩他这种勇气，赞道：“尔非童生，乃铁生也。”此后，奚冈便以“铁生”为号。

 Xigang (1746 - 1803) was a seal engraver and painter in Qing Dynasty. Originally known as steel, Tiesheng, Chunzhang, Luogong, Dieyezi, Hezhusheng, Mengquan History, Mongol Taoist, Xi Taoist, Samurai Buddhist, Donghua Anhui, originally Shexian (now Anhui), as Yixian (now Anhui), residing in the West Lake of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Should not be imperial examinations, love poems and paintings, landscapes, flowers and stones, charm super meaningful. He has traveled to Japan and is famous overseas. In the Qianlong period, it was impossible to collect filial piety, honesty and uprightness. The Emperor of Qin and Han Dynasty was famous as Ding Jing, Huang Yi and Jiang Ren and was named Xiling. And with Chen Yuzhong, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zhichen, Qian Song, Xiling Bajia.

Xigang, good at calligraphy, seal cutting and seal treatment, Zong Qin and Han Dynasty, 9-year-old Li Shu, later line, grass, seal, Li, all are excellent, and

He is known for his paintings. His landscape paintings are natural and complacent, and his flowers, orchids and bamboos, are free from vulgarity. Ding Jing, a master of Buddhism, has developed and has a clear style. He is an outstanding Indian of Zhejiang School. With Ding Jing, Huang Yi and Jiang Ren, they are four famous families in Hangzhou County, and together with Chen Yuzhong, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zhichen and Qian Song, they are eight families in Xiling. He is also good at poetry and books, good at painting, and solitary in sex. Calligraphy is a four-body part-time work, the real calligraphy Chu Suiliang, the ancient Li style of writing is super-elegant, superior to the generation. Landscape natural and clean, Dong Qichang law. He is broad-minded and honest, does not seek fame and honor, despises power and dignity, and always wears clothes. After his painting and calligraphy became famous, there was a steady stream of painters. However, they disdained the purchase of the rich and powerful officials. Ruan Yuan, governor of Zhejiang Province, entrusted many people to seek and meet, but still failed. Old age into Li Liufang faction. Flowers have Yunshou calm charm, orchid and bamboo are also detached, for the giant painter in central Zhejiang. Has written "Xishan Suqiu Tu", "Banana and Bamboo Youlan Tu", "Spring Forest Return to Wing Picture" and other axes. The handed down paintings include "Jiaolinxue Shutu" and "Tianxin Museum Picture", which are now hidden in the Palace Museum. He is the author of The Remaining Draft of Winter Flower Temple. In recent years, the research on Xi Gang has been most in-depth with eight experts in Xiling, Zhu Qi's "The Family, Life and Seal Carving Art of Xi Gang" (Collected Papers of the Third Gushan Certification Summit of International Seal Science of Xiling Printing Society), Several Life Orientations of Xi Gang, and "The Chronology of Xi Gang".

Emperor Qianlong toured the south of the Yangtze River many times. In order to meet the Holy driver, the governor of Zhejiang built a palace along the Bank of the West Lake. Because of Xikang's.

With great fame, local officials asked Xikang to go to the palace to paint. Xikang resolutely refused to do so. When the governor was angry, he sent a man to put an arm in his palace. Without fear of power, Xikang resolutely said, "How can there be a painter? The head can be chopped off, the painting can not be obtained!" The governor's staff admired his courage very much, and praised him: "You are not born as a child, you are born as an iron child." Since then, Xikang has been named Tiesheng.