Gu Hongzhong (approximately 910--980 AD)
Active in the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was the later master of the Southern Tang Painting Academy and an imperial edict. He is good at painting and can only see figures. He is a master of "eye recognition and mental memory". The painting style follows the tradition of ladies in the Tang Dynasty and creates the modeling characteristics of the delicate and beautiful images of the Five Dynasties. His only work handed down to the world is "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", but it remains in the world with the style of "a single painting that overwhelms the Five Dynasties". Shining with the eternal light of art.
Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322 AD), also known as Zi'ang, also known as Songxue Taoist, Crystal Palace Taoist, lay Taoist, Taishang disciple, etc. He was Mengfu in his middle age and lived in Oubo Pavilion and Songxuezhai, which are known to the world. Zhao Oubo and Zhao Songxue were natives of Huzhou, Zhejiang, and belonged to the Song clan. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, they served as chief ministers of Zhenzhou and joined the army. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, they served as doctors in the Ministry of Officers and Soldiers, bachelors of Jixian, and also knew the affairs of the general manager of Jinan Road, the magistrate of Fenzhou, and the province of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Confucianism Tiju, Taizhou Yin, Jixian Shi Lecturer, and Hanlin Bachelor accepted the decree and were granted the title of Duke of Wei, with the posthumous title Wenmin. He was honored in the five dynasties, famous all over the world, and was the second king of calligraphy. He was good at all styles. The style of painting in the Southern Song Dynasty gradually declined. Zhao Mengfu took retrospection as his innovation, learned from Dong Yuan and Li Cheng in landscape painting, and learned from Jin and Tang Dynasties in figures and pommel horses, as well as Li Gonglin. He tried his best to correct the shortcomings of the times and became the "Crown of Yuan Paintings". His wife, Guan Sheng, and his son Zhao Yong were all able to calligraphy and painting.
Tang Yin (March 6, 1470 - January 7, 1524) was born on the fourth day of February in the sixth year of Chenghua and died on December 2, the second year of Jiajing. His courtesy name was Bohu, which was later changed to Ziwei, also known as Liuru, was a painter, calligrapher and poet of the Ming Dynasty.
When he was 30 years old, he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. He was involved in leaking the test questions and was dismissed. His wife remarried, and his life was full of hardships. Later, he traveled to famous mountains and rivers and became famous all over the world for selling literary works and paintings.
In his early years, he studied painting with Shen Zhou and Zhou Chen, under the patriarchal tradition of Li Tang and Liu Songnian, and integrated the northern and southern painting schools. The figure painter inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, graceful postures and accurate shapes; he also used freehand brushwork of figures with concise, comprehensive and interesting strokes. His flower and bird paintings are good at freehand ink painting, free and elegant. The calligraphy is unique and handsome, and is modeled after Zhao Mengfu.
In poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing, he is known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong". In paintings, together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying, they are called the "Four Schools of Wu Clan", also known as the "Four Schools of Ming Dynasty".
Tang Yin's works include "Riding a Donkey Thinking of Returning", "Sound of Pines on Mountain Road", "Shi Ming Picture", "Prostitutes in Wang Shu Palace", "Li Duanduan's Registration", "Autumn Wind Fan" Paintings such as "Picture" and "Picture of Birds on a Dry Tree" are collected in major museums around the world.