罗稚川是元代前期的重要画家之一,但我们对他所知甚少。这部分归咎于罗稚川归隐文人的身份,即便在他自身所处的时代,人们对他也知之不多,尽管他一度有“丹青夸绝代”~1的美誉。元末成书的《图绘宝鉴》也没有记录这位优秀的画家,考虑到罗的出众艺术才能及与其同时代的唐棣(1287-1355)、朱德润(1294-1365)和王渊(1280-1369)及许多今日甚为无名的画家都被收录,这个现象颇令人费解。现存与其相关的文献资料有二十条左右,根据这些材料可以推测他大约生活在1265年至1340年。~2罗稚川一生在其家乡江西临江(即今清江)以绘画为业,作品以李郭风格为主。在元代,相当多的文人曾自称或被人描述为某种类型的隐士,但他们不必真的归隐山林,与世隔绝,甚至在朝廷为官也可以不妨 Luo Chih-chuan was one of the important painters in the early Yuan Dynasty, but we did not know much about him. This is partly due to the identity of Luo Chi-chuan, a seclusionist, even though he was not known to him even in his own time, though at one time he had the reputation of “Dangerous Exaggeration”. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the “Illustrated Poetic Paintings” did not record the outstanding painter. Considering Luo’s outstanding artistic talents and his contemporaries, Tang Di (1287-1355), Zhu Derun (1294-1365) and Wang Yuan 1280-1369), and many painters of unknown importance today are included. This phenomenon is rather puzzling. There are about twenty existing documents related to it, and based on these materials, it can be speculated that he lives in about 1265-1340. ~ 2 Luo Chi-chuan life in his hometown of Jiangxi Linjiang (now the Qingjiang) to painting as the industry, the work of Li Guo style-based. In the Yuan Dynasty, a considerable number of literati professed or described as some type of hermit, but they did not have to be really secluded, isolated, or even courted officials.