Who are the famous ancient Chinese painters

Gu Kaizhi (348 409) was a native of Wuxi (present-day Wuxi, Jiangsu Province) in Jinling, with the character Changkang and the small character Hutou. Gu Kaizhi was an erudite and talented artist, who was good at poetry and calligraphy, and especially good at painting. Proficient in portraits, statues of Buddha, animals and birds, landscapes, etc., the people of the time called the three best: painting, literature and obsession. Xie An y valued him, and thought that he had not been there since Cangsheng. Gu Kaizhi, together with Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Shengqiao, was known as the "Four Great Masters of the Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's paintings were intended to convey the spirit, and his thesis of "moving the mind and getting it right" and "writing God in the form", as well as the "Six Methods", laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China. He laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China. Zhan Ziqi: (ca. 550-604) An outstanding painter of the Sui Dynasty. He was a native of Bohai (present-day Hetian County, Hebei Province). After the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he entered the Sui Dynasty as a court official and a governor in the tent. He painted many murals in monasteries in Luoyang, Chang'an and Yangzhou. He was good at painting stories, men and horses, landscapes, and buildings; he was meticulous in his depiction of figures, and then used color to halo the faces of the figures, which made him extremely colorful and profound. Zhan Ziqi's "Spring Tour" is one of the oldest surviving landscape scroll paintings found in China. He was praised in Xuanhe Paintings as "especially skillful in writing the situation of rivers and mountains near and far, so there is a thousand miles of interest at hand". His landscape painting than the six dynasties before the landscape painting that "the water is not dissolved pan, people in the mountains," the childish and clumsy painting method is much more mature. According to records, his "Pavilions in the Immortal Mountains" is mainly outlined in green, and the brushwork is very fine, and later people called him "the ancestor of Tang painting". Historians of American history call Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Xianxiao, and Zhan Ziqi as the four outstanding painters before the Tang Dynasty.

Yan Liben

Yan Liben: (601-673) A native of Wannian, Yongzhou in the Tang Dynasty. He was the son of Yan Bi, a painter of the Sui Dynasty, and the brother of Yan Lide. He was the minister of the Ministry of Justice during the reign of Emperor Taizong, and in the early years of the Xianqing period, he became the minister of the Ministry of Public Works on behalf of his brother, and was the right prime minister in the first year of the General Chapter. He was good at calligraphy and painting, and was most skillful in resemblance. He used to paint the picture of the emperor's carriage, etc. He painted a wide range of subjects, such as religious figures, horses and chariots, landscapes, and was especially good at portraits. His masterpiece, Pictures of the Emperors and Kings of All Ages, is one of the most important works of classical painting. The painted courtesans, with curved eyebrows and plump cheeks, look as if they are alive. The ink used has bones; the coloring is peculiar and methodical. The strokes are rich in variation, thick and thin, loose and tight, and the brushwork is more delicate and expressive than that of Gu Kaizhi.

Wu Daoxuan: an outstanding painter of the Tang Dynasty. Word Daozi. He was a native of Yangzhai, Henan (present-day Yuxian, Henan). He was born around the time of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and was active in painting during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of Emperor Xuanzong (around the end of the seventh century and the beginning of the eighth century). Born in a poor family. He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and painting with Zhang Shengxiao. Later, he was summoned by the Tangshan Yanzhou police to make offerings, and was awarded the posts of "Doctor of Internal Education" and "Friend of the King of Ning". When Emperor Xuanzong called him to the palace, he changed his name from Daoxuan to Daozi and declared that he was not allowed to paint without an imperial decree. His paintings of figures, ghosts and gods, birds and animals, and pavilions were the best in the world. He made as many as 300 walls of religious frescoes. He was regarded as the "Saint of Painting" and honored as the "Ancestor" by the democratic painters. Its artistic style is "strong and powerful", "powdered simple and light", strong and vigorous lines, rich in change, a change in the old inherited high ancient silk stroke of the fine brush, the development of the art of line drawing, so that the performance of the object "high side Deep and oblique, rolled with the momentum of the belt", rich in a sense of movement, sense of rhythm, known as the "Wu belt when the wind". He also created the light-color method of "applying slight dyeing to the burnt ink marks", which was called "Wu's new style". His works reflect more of real life and have a strong people's nature. The poet Du Fu wrote after seeing his mural "Five Saints" painted at the Xuan Yuan Temple in Luoyang, "Painters look at the predecessors, Wu Sheng is unique. Senluo move the axis of the earth, the wonderful move the palace wall; five saints United Dragongon, thousands of officials in the line of geese. Coronets are hair, flags are flying" praise. Its painting style, for the Tang Dynasty and the Song and Yuan since many painters to follow. In the Song Dynasty, Li Gonglin's simple and clean "white painting" was developed by "only ink traces". It had a great influence on later generations.

Guan Tong

Guan Tong was a native of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi). He painted landscapes under the tutelage of Jing Hao, and deliberately developed his own style, which was called "Guan's landscapes". His landscapes were simple and strong, with a wide range of scenery and long meaning, and were on a par with those of Li Cheng and Fan Kuan, which were known in the Northern Song Dynasty as the "Three Families of Landscapes". It is rich in the flavor of life. The landscape is both "lofty" and "distant", and the trees are skillful but not dry; the brush is simple, strong and old-fashioned, with thick and thin intermittent; the ink is stained and dyed vividly, and the ink rhyme is spared. According to Xuanhe Paintings, Guan Tong was "especially good at making cold forests in the mountains in autumn, and his works, together with his village dwellings and wild ferries, his eccentrics and escapists, and his fishermen, make the viewer feel as if he were in the wind and snow of the Ba Bridge, or hearing the apes in the Three Gorges, and there is no longer a sense of resistance to the dust of the city or the common people." The feelings outside the painting can also be seen in the picture. There is no mark on this painting, and according to the seal of the collection, it can be seen that it was successively collected by Jia Sidao, Yuan's inner palace, Ming's inner palace, Ming's Jin's royal palace, and Qing's Anqi, and later entered Qing's palace. Ink edge Hui Guan" and "Shiqu Baoji sequel" and other painting books recorded, can be considered to represent Guan Tong painting style work.

Li Sixun

Li Sixun: (651-716, 648-713) an outstanding painter of the Tang Dynasty. The character Jian. He was a native of Chengji (present-day Qin'an, Gansu). He was the son of Xiaobin, a member of the Tang royal family. Famous for his war achievements in his time. He was once the General of Wuwei, and was known as "General Li". His son Li Zhaodao was called "Little General Li". His style of painting is refined and strict, using the heavy colors of gold, blue and green for landscapes, fine into the hair, unique. In terms of brushwork, he was able to outline the changes of hills and valleys with many twists and turns. The law is strict, the mood is high, the brush force is strong, the color is rich, showing the development and maturity of landscape painting from small green to large green. It and the rise of ink landscape painting in the same period, all for the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty landscape painting laid the foundation. All of his works are scattered. Xuanhe Shubuan" records that there are still "mountain session of four white", "spring mountain map", "sea and sky fall photo map", "river and mountain fishing music", "mountains and forests" and other seventeen, and now only see the "river sails and pavilions" and "Jucheng Palace fan map".

Zhang Xuan: an outstanding painter of the Tang Dynasty. Jingzhao (now Xi'an, Shaanxi). His life story is not known. During the reigns of Kaiyuan and Tianbao, he painted at the court. He was good at painting ladies and palace cranes. One of his masterpieces is "The Painting of the Worst Practices", with natural movements of the characters, vivid details, strong lines, and rich colors. In the character modeling, the painting of the women's curved eyebrows and cheeks, Li Duozi, face and body shape are fat.