China masters of painting and calligraphy list.

The top ten masters of China painting and calligraphy are ranked as follows:

Wu Daozi (1), also known as Daoxuan from 680 to 759, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty and was honored as a painting saint by the world. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts and gods, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions and so on. , especially good at Buddhism and figures, and good at mural creation.

Many of his inventions are highlights in the history of China painting, such as highly realistic techniques, the liberation of brushwork, the formal establishment of landscape painting and so on. All this originated from Wu Daozi, whose famous work Born of Gautama Buddha is now in Osaka City Art Museum.

2. Gu Kaizhi, an outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty from 348 to 409. Gu Kaizhi is knowledgeable and versatile. He is good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting. Specializing in portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. The world calls them the three musts: painting, writing and ignorance.

Gu Kaizhi's painting intention is vivid, and his thoughts of "moving the mind" and "expressing the spirit with form" laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China. His masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, such as "A picture of a woman's history", "A picture of a goddess of Luo", "A picture of a woman's life" and "A picture of Qin", are precious. Among them, the picture of women's history is now hidden in the British Museum in London, England.

3. Huang, from 1269 to 1354, was a painter in Yuan Dynasty, who was good at calligraphy, temperament and poetry, especially at painting landscapes, and studied under Zhao Mengfu. Ink and wash, pale crimson, strange characters in the grass, magnificent, simple in brushwork, perfect in spirit, unique in its own way, and won the evaluation of "lush peaks and lush vegetation"

Paintings handed down from ancient times include Fuchun Shan Jutu, Shui Ge Quiet Map, Tianchi Stone Wall Map, Jiu Feng Snowfall Map, Fuchun Daling Map and so on. Author of "Writing Landscape Tactics".

4. Zhao Mengfu, from 1254 to 1322, is the leader of Song Xuedao and Crystal Palace. He is well-read, good at poetry, classics, calligraphy, painting, epigraphy, composition and appreciation. In painting, he created a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". His paintings have a wide range of materials and comprehensive techniques, and he is good at landscapes, figures and flowers and birds.

5. Yan, 60 1 to 673, prime minister and painter of the Tang Dynasty. He is good at handicrafts and originality, and is good at painting and architecture. He is famous for his paintings. Representative works such as "Walking Map" and "Statues of Emperors in Past Dynasties".

6. Mi Fei, 105 1 to 1 107, was a calligrapher, painter, painter, appraiser, collector, Haiyue scholar, descendant and descendant of Huo Zheng in the Northern Song Dynasty. His paintings are unique, and he founded "Midian Landscape".

7. Ni Zan was a painter and poet in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Ni Zan was good at painting landscapes and ink bamboo, and studied under Dong Yuan. Influenced by Zhao Mengfu, his painting style was clean and smooth in his early years, and plain and naive in his later years. He is also called "Yuan Sijia" with Huang, Wang Meng and Zhenwu. Existing works include Autumn Collection Map of Fishing Village, Six Scholars Map and Rongxizhai Map. And the collection of Qing Palace Pavilion.

8. Tang Yin, also known as Tang Ziwei and Tang Bohu, was a painter and writer in China during the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1470 to 1523). In addition to painting, Tang Yin also engaged in calligraphy, learning from Zhao Mengfu, and his calligraphy style was fantastic and handsome. There are some paintings that have been handed down from generation to generation, such as Riding a Donkey to Home, Singing in the Mountain Road, Mingming, Uncle Wang's Palace Prostitute, Li Duanduanju, Autumn Wind and Fan, and Qiuci Cuan.

9. Hao Jing, about 850 to 9 1 1 year, was a famous painter in the late Tang and Five Dynasties and the ancestor of the Northern Landscape Painting School. He is good at landscape painting, painting "a pen with ink, water faint ink chapter", the pen with hook is strong and steep, showing a profound and vigorous momentum, and is the ancestor of the northern landscape painting school. His works include Open Road Map and Snow Scene Map.

10, Dong Qichang, 1555 to 1636, minister and painter in the late Ming dynasty, good at landscape painting. He studied under Dong Yuan, Huang and Ni Zan, and his brushwork was delicate and neutral, quiet and sparse; Clean and bright with ink fragrance, gentle and plain; Green, simple and generous.

He is an outstanding representative of Huating School of Painting and has the beauty of "Yan Gu Zhao Zi". His masterpieces Gao, Lin Hejing's Poems and Eight Scenes of autumn scenery are now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.