Wu Changshuo: modern painter. A native of Anji, Zhejiang, he was the first president of Xiling Seal Society in Hangzhou. His original name was Jun, his courtesy name was Changshuo, and he had many nicknames. Common names include Cangshuo, Laocang, Laofou, Kutie, Dade, Shizunzhe, etc. He is a master of calligraphy, painting and calligraphy, and his works are vigorous and vigorous. He is a great master of Chinese painting.
Qi Baishi (1864～1957): modern calligrapher, painter and seal carver. Ming Huang, courtesy name Binsheng, nicknamed Baishi, was from Xiangtan, Hunan. He worked as a carpenter in his early years. At the age of 27, he became a disciple of local literati and studied poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing. After the age of 57, he settled in Beijing and sold paintings and made seals. After the age of 60, the "Decline Reform" attached great importance to creation, integrating traditional freehand painting and folk painting techniques. The flowers, birds, insects, fish, shrimps and crabs painted are with vigorous and vertical strokes, concise and simple shapes, bright and warm colors, and the freehand flowers in broad strokes are cleverly combined with the subtle grass and insects, making the expressions vivid.
Zhang Daqian (1899～1983): modern painter. The original name was Quan, but it was renamed Yuan, with the courtesy name Ji Ai, the nickname Daqian, and the name Dafengtang. Born in Neijiang, Sichuan, his ancestral home is Panyu, Guangdong. In 1917, he studied in Japan and learned dyeing and weaving in Kyoto. After returning to China in 1919, he studied calligraphy and painting from Zeng Xi and Li Ruiqing. In 1941, he went to Dunhuang Grottoes to copy murals.
Xu Beihong (1895～1953), a modern painter, was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Studied in France. It can integrate Chinese and Western techniques to create its own look. Good at oil painting, Chinese painting, especially sketching. The character modeling pays attention to realism and expresses expressions. His representative works include "Jiu Fang Gao" and "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain". The flowers, birds, landscapes and animals he painted are concise, lively and full of vitality. He is especially famous at home and abroad for his paintings of horses.
Huang Binhong (1865～1955) was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang. He has a simple name and a simple character. He is good at landscapes, flowers and pays attention to sketching, but he became famous relatively late. After the age of 50, his painting style gradually became more realistic. After the age of 80, the "black, dense, thick and heavy" painting style that people are familiar with was truly formed. Huang Binhong's landscape paintings in his later years were characterized by deep layers of mountains and rivers, majestic momentum, and shocking world. This remarkable feature also elevated Chinese landscape paintings to a supreme realm.
Li Keran (1907-1989), a famous teacher Niutang, was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. He studied painting since he was a child. He first entered the normal school of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the postgraduate class of Hangzhou West Lake National Academy of Art. He studied oil painting under the famous French painter Crodot. He was deeply influenced by Pan Tianshou and Lin Fengmian, and also studied painting under Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong. He is good at landscape painting, re-drawing from life, and introduced the light and dark processing methods in Western painting into Chinese painting. He harmoniously blended Western painting techniques into the profound traditional brushwork and modeling imagery, and achieved outstanding achievements.
Fu Baoshi (1904~1965), a master of modern landscape painting, the huge landscape painting "So Many Beautiful Lands and Mountains" in the Great Hall of the People is a masterpiece of his collaboration with Guan Shanyue. His original name was Ruilin, and he was the owner of Baoshizhai. He was a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi. Fu Baoshi made great achievements in landscape painting. He is also good at painting water and rain, and created the original "bouldering" method. His figure paintings are also unique.
Guan Shanyue (1912～2000) was born in Yangjiang County, Guangdong Province. Guan Shanyue's landscape paintings have lofty intentions and magnificent realm; his plum blossoms, with branches like iron and flowers like fire, are powerful, thick, elegant and elegant. His representative works include "Beautiful Spring", "The Great Green Wall", "Tianshan Pastoral", "Blue Waves Surge in the Southern Sky", "Qilian Pastoral Residence" and "So Many Beautiful Lands", a collaboration with Fu Baoshi.
Lin Fengmian (1900～1991), formerly known as Fengming, was a native of Meixian County, Guangdong. Lin Fengmian's early creations were mainly oil paintings of figures, as well as ink paintings of landscapes, flowers and birds. His paintings widely absorbed and digested nutrients from classical art, impressionism, and brutalist art. At the same time, he also studied traditional Chinese art and folk art. His representative works include "Groping", "Humanity", "Human World", "Desire of Life", "History of Humanity", etc.
Liu Haisu (1896～1994), whose original name was Pan, also named Jifang and Haiweng. His ancestral home is Fengyang, Anhui, and he was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu in March 1896. He has profound attainments in Chinese painting, oil painting, calligraphy, poetry and art theory. The creation of traditional Chinese paintings draws on traditional elites rather than following the past. He focuses on sketching from life, is good at landscapes, flowers, birds, and animals, and likes to use the splash-ink and color technique.
The painting style is bold and unrestrained, bold and vigorous, mellow and simple, colorful and unique.
Li Kuchan (1899～1983), formerly known as Li Ying and Li Yingjie, also named Li Gong, was a native of Gaotang County, Shandong Province. An outstanding contemporary freehand flower and bird painter. His works inherit the fine tradition of Chinese painting, absorb the techniques of predecessors such as Shi Tao, Bada Shanren, Yangzhou School, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, etc., and integrate Chinese and Western techniques. Developed its own unique characteristics. He often uses pine, bamboo, plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, stone, lotus, starling, cormorant and eagle as themes in his paintings. His representative works include "Lotus in Bloom", "Eagles", "Orchid and Bamboo", "Hibiscus", etc.
Huang Zhou (1925～1997), whose original surname was Liang, given name Gantang and courtesy name Yingqi, was born in Lijing, Hebei Province. He advocated starting from sketching. From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, he copied a large number of ancient masterpieces twice. With a large number of new artistic conceptions and new techniques, he displayed masterpieces with smooth pen and ink and surging spirit, setting a new model for the Chinese painting world. Representative works: "Prehistoric Wind and Snow", "Singing Journey", "Feng Le Tu", "Jubilant Grassland", "Herding Horses".