Three Outstanding Artists in Six Dynasties: refers to the painters of the Six Dynasties in China's painting history. Gu Kaizhi and Zhang Sengyou, born in the Southern Liang Dynasty, have unique creations in painting. They don't paint mountains and rivers with pen and ink, which is called "boneless mountains and rivers" in history and forms their own family. Lu Tanwei, a native of Southern Song Dynasty, was famous for a while. Its strokes have the characteristics of "connection", which is called "one stroke". These three people have their own characteristics and specialties, and they are called the three outstanding men in the Six Dynasties. Wu Jinzi, a Canadian painter in Yang Shen's paintings in Ming Dynasty, was called "the fourth ancestor of painters". Gu Kaizhi's works "Luoshen Fu", "Women's Historical Pictures" and Zhang Sengyou's works "Twenty-eight Nights" Volume 1.
Four Great Masters in Five Dynasties: refers to the history of China's painting. Hao Jing, Guan Tong, Dong Yuan and Ju Ran. Abbreviations: Jing, Guan, Dong and Ju. Since the Tang Dynasty, their painting styles have changed obviously. It became a bridge between tang style and Song Ge. Wang Ming's poem said: "The landscape becomes two Li Yi; Jing, Guan, Dong and Ju have changed again. " (Li refers to father and son). The characteristics of four families in the Five Dynasties: Hao Jing's paintings are majestic, profound, bold and firm; Guan Tong's paintings are majestic and firm, with dense cliffs; Dong Yuan's paintings are magnificent and have great potential to stand out. Ju Ran's paintings tend to be solemn, simple and quiet. Ju Ran Shan Jutu, Dongyuan River bank map, Guantongshan River waiting to cross the map.
Four Masters of Southern Song Dynasty: refers to the painters of Southern Song Dynasty Painting Academy in the history of China painting, such as Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, also known as "Four Masters of Southern Song Dynasty". Among the four schools called "Li, Liu, Ma and Xia" for short, the painting methods inherited and developed by Liu, Ma and Xia earlier became the mainstream of the Southern Song Dynasty Painting Academy. The style characteristics of their four families are: Li Tang's paintings are vigorous, sharp and magnificent; Influenced by Li Tang, Liu Songnian's paintings are more neat. Li Tang, the teacher of Ma Yuan and Eve, made a multi-faceted close-up of the library with straight, rigid and simple techniques and dripping ink. It is called "Horse Corner" and "Xia Banbian". His painting style had a great influence on Zhejiang School and courtyard landscape painting in Ming Dynasty. All the way belongs to Hao Zongjian's painting style. At first, there was no such name. Tu Long said: "Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui are the four great men after Nandu." Zhang Chou said: "Liu Songnian was the crown in the Southern Song Dynasty, followed by Li Tang, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui." Zhang Taijie said: "Liu, Li, Ma and Xia all have fame, but Li and Ma are the most important." Li Tang's Picking Flowers and Ma Yuan's Treading Songs.
Yuan Sijia: There are four Yuan Dynasty painters in China, namely Huang, Wang Meng, Ni Zan and Zhen Wu. Their common feature is "simple and elegant" landscape painting style. Emphasizing the development of ink painting has played a great role. The four people are in the same era and are similar in age. Its style features: rich mountains and rivers, lush vegetation; Wang Meng painted dozens of landscapes, dozens of trees, thousands of rocks and valleys, overlapping annual rings; Zhenwushan River is vast and gloomy; Ni Zan landscape, the so-called "naive and quiet, lonely", has a desolate and empty, simple and gloomy interest. Huang's Fuchun and Zhenwu's Two Trees in a Flat Way.
Ming Sijia refers to four Ming Dynasty painters in the history of China painting, namely Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming, Tang Yin and Chou Ying. They are all engaged in painting activities in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Suzhou is also known as the "Wu School" because it was the land of Wu in ancient times, that is, Shen, Wen, Tang and Qiu. Among them, Shen Zhou and Wen Zhiming are good at painting landscapes, inheriting the tradition of landscape painting of Beijing School. Tang Yin is very good at landscapes and figures, and their courtyard style in the Southern Song Dynasty is Fa. Chou Ying is famous for its meticulous figures and green scenery. Four people have their own strengths and are equally famous. But apart from Shen Zhou and Wen Zhiming, Tang Yan and Chou Ying have their own qualifications. Therefore, the "Wu Si Jia" ("Ming Sijia") are only four famous artists with high achievements and different styles in the Ming Dynasty, not the same school of painting.
Shen Zhou's work "One of Sleeping Travel Books: Sleeping Travel Map"
Four Famous Monks: In the history of painting in China, "four famous monks" refer to four painters who became monks in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Yuanji (Shi Tao), Zhu Da (Badashanren), Kun Can (Xi Shi) and Zhejiang (Hong Ren). All four people are good at landscape painting, each with its own style. They all try their best to give full play to their creativity, oppose copying ancient times and achieve innovative achievements. Their characteristics are: Shi Tao's paintings are fantastic and detached; Badashanren's paintings are concise and clear; Kun can's paintings are pale and elegant; Hong Ren's paintings are simple and quiet. Have your own style. Their painting style had a great influence on the later "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" until modern painters such as Wu Changgu and Qi Baishi.