1, The Ancestor of Buddha Painting: Cao Buxing.
Cao Buxing, also known as Fuxing, was a famous painter in the Three Kingdoms period. Sun Wu was born in Xing Wu (now Huzhou, Zhejiang), and his date of birth and death is unknown. He enjoyed a high reputation during the period of Huang Wu (222-229). Known as the "ancestor of Buddha painting". Together with Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Lu Tanwei in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhang Liang monk You in the Southern Dynasties, they are called "four outstanding figures in the Six Dynasties". Together with Zhao Da's arithmetic, Yanwu's chess and the emperor's cursive script, it is called "Wuzhong Five Commandments".
Cao Buxing is good at painting dragon, tiger and horse figures, and has legendary stories such as "falling ink into flies". His achievements in Buddhist painting have a great influence on later generations. It is said that the leader he painted impressed Sheikh. There are no traces of painting today. According to the history of Zhenguan's public and private paintings, his works include Qingxi Dragon, Red Panlong, Ten Kinds of Horses in the South China Sea, Foreign Objects and Animals, and Taoyuan Map. , has long been lost. But later, the famous painter Wei Xie directly inherited his method.
Main achievements: With Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, etc. And called "four outstanding figures in the Six Dynasties"; He was good at writing with the emperor, playing chess with Yan Wu, and arithmetic with Zhao Da, and was called "Five Commandments in Wuzhong".
2. Shuti: Zhang Monk Friends
Zhang Sengyou, whose real name is unknown, was born in Wuzhong, Wu Jun (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Minister Liang and a famous painter in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Tian Liang served as assistant minister of Wuling State in prison, and was in charge of painting in secret pavilions. He is the general of the right-wing army and the local governor of Xing Wu. He studied hard and became a talent. He is good at portrait painting, painting Buddha statues, dragons and eagles, scroll painting and mural painting. The story of this idiom comes from the legend about him. It is recorded that he painted "convex and concave flowers" in Yicheng Temple in Jinling with the method of "contrast between light and shade", which is very stereoscopic. It can be seen that he accepted foreign painting techniques, "the pen is only one or two, and the image has been reflected", which is very similar to the current sketch and is called "sparse body".
Today, an original copy of Five Stars and Twenty-eight Hostels copied by Liang Lingzan in the Tang Dynasty has been handed down from generation to generation and has been exported to Japan. But the brushwork and record of this painting are different. He is also good at sculpture and is known as "Zhang's family style".
Zhang Sengyou's painting art has a great influence on later generations, and he is called the fourth ancestor of painters with Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei and Wu Daozi. Tang Dynasty painters Yan and Wu Daozi both studied under him.
3. Calligraphy and painting: Lu Tanwei
Lu Tanwei, Han nationality, was born in Wuxian (now Suzhou). Liu Song painter in the Southern Dynasties, in the history of China painting, he was the founder of calligraphy painting. He applied Zhang Zhi's cursive script in the Eastern Han Dynasty to his paintings, but it's a pity that it's hard to see his paintings now. Zhang Yanyuan in the Tang Dynasty recorded more than 70 of his paintings, covering a wide range, from paintings of sages and figures of Buddha statues to animals and birds.
Also known as "Lu Gu" with Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; Even in Sheikh's catalogue of ancient paintings, he was highly praised. He is one of the earliest outstanding painters in Suzhou, south of the Yangtze River. In order to study his legacy, the author attached several works with the same style for reference and comparison.
4. The originator of Chinese painting and landscape painting: Gu Kaizhi.
Gu Kaizhi (348 ~ 409) was born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi, Jiangsu), Han nationality. An outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because of his great achievements in literature and painting, people call him painting, literature and infatuation.
Gu Kaizhi is well-read and good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting. Specializing in portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. People call it the three musts: painting, writing and infatuation. Xie An is so deep that he thinks it has not existed since its birth. Gu Kaizhi, Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou are also called "Four Masters in Six Dynasties". 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.