1, Gu Kaizhi
Gu Kaizhi was the first painter who had an influence on the development of Chinese painting. He not only created the basic pattern of figure painting, but also left the earliest manuscript of landscape painting, Painting Yuntai Mountain, and put forward the painting principles that can be adhered to for thousands of years, such as "vivid theory". Needless to say, before modern art education entered China, Gu Kaizhi's painting concept was still the common principle of most China painters.
2. Wu Daozi
People who are honored as "painting saints" can't get such honor unless they are gifted. Wu Daozi is really amazing. Many of his inventions are highlights in the history of China painting, such as highly realistic techniques, the liberation of brushwork and the formal establishment of landscape painting. It all originated in Wu Daozi. Wu Daozi's contribution to China's painting is epoch-making. Without him, the development of Chinese painting would not be like what we see now, and history would change the process.
3.wang wei
Foreign researchers always doubt the authenticity of Wang Wei's paintings, while China people always think that he is the originator of the combination of poetry and painting. Although Wang Wei's paintings have disappeared, his poems are still there. When Chinese people read his poems, they can imagine a wonderful situation that only belongs to China people. China people will not doubt Wang Wei any more than they will doubt the soul of their own culture.
4. Hao Jing
Hao Jing (about 850-? ), a painter of the Five Dynasties Back Beam. The word Haoran,No. Hong Guzi. Qinshui (now Qinshui, Shanxi) was born in Jiyuan, Henan. [1] He lived in seclusion in Taihang Mountain all the year round because of avoiding war. Be good at painting landscapes, learn from Zhang Kun, absorb the vigorous wind of northern landscapes, and draw "with pen and ink, water faints ink chapters", with a firm pen.
It shows a profound and magnificent momentum and is the ancestor of the northern landscape painting school. Calligraphy is a classic of ancient landscape painting theory, which puts forward the "six essentials" of qi, rhyme, scenery, thought, pen and ink in landscape painting. Existing works include Kuang Lu Tu and Snow Scene Tu.
5. Li Tang
Li Tang (about 1085- 1 165) was born in three cities of Heyang (now Meng County, Henan Province). Diligent and eager to learn, brilliant, good at poetry and painting. At first, he made a living by selling paintings. Hui Zong Zheng Hezhong (1 1 14) attended the palace examination of the Academy of Painting and joined it. The "Jingkang Rebellion" was exiled in the north and then fled to the south at the risk of death. Xiao Zhao met him in Taihang Mountain, Xiao Zhao worshipped him as a teacher, and went to Lin 'an (now Hangzhou) to sell paintings.
6. Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu (1254 ——1322), Zi Ang, was a passerby in Song Xue, Huzhou (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang). One of the four masters of regular script (Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Zhao Mengfu). Song Taizu's grandson, Zhao Kuangyin XI, was later awarded Qin by Wang Fang. Be knowledgeable, good at poetry and prose, understand economy, industrial calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, know rules and appreciate.
In particular, calligraphy and painting achieved the highest achievements in the Yuan Dynasty, creating a new style of painting, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". In painting, landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, bamboo stones and pommel horses are omnipotent; Fine brushwork, freehand brushwork, turquoise, ink and wash, everything is fine.
7. Ni Zan
Ni Zan (130 1 ~ 1374) was a painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty. The name is Shen. Ni Zan has been the representative of "one product" since ancient times. His works are plain in composition and simple in scenery, mostly in sparse forest slopes and shallow water areas. Use a pen to change the center to the side, fold and draw rocks, the pen and ink are dry, elegant and loose, and the artistic conception is cold and ethereal.
Ge Xiao is scattered and detached, simple and complex, small and big, lonely and passionate. His painting ideal, or the light of human nature, has become the spiritual shore of China literati. Many of his masterpieces had a great influence on Peng Qing's later paintings.
8. Dong Qichang
The charm of Dong Qichang lies not only in the beauty of his calligraphy and painting and the great influence of the theory of "Northern and Southern Dynasties", but also in his life. Although he experienced numerous political storms, he still sat for three dynasties. Although his career is sinister, he has made great achievements in painting and calligraphy. His personality charm is rare in history. If judged horizontally, Dong Qichang's comprehensive quality is unparalleled, and he is a great man who can be excavated from many aspects.
9. Badashan people
There were many literary celebrities in the early Qing Dynasty, and Badashanren was the most attractive one. He is a monk who has been practicing for many years, and his poems, books and paintings are often deep and secluded. He behaves strangely, sometimes crazy, sometimes speechless, sometimes extremely normal; He was born in a special family and descended from the royal family of the Ming Dynasty. Since birth, he has been burdened with the pain of the decline of his home country.
10, Shi Tao
The development of Chinese painting to Shi Tao has been in a state of endless change, but his theory is better. His Quotations of Paintings by Bitter Melons and Monks can be said to be the pinnacle of Chinese painting theory. Shi Tao's paintings are only one twelfth of his theoretical essence, so it is no wonder that Quotations of Paintings by Bitter Melon and Monks have become the best-selling theoretical works of Chinese painting in the world.