1, Zhang Monk You
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.
2. Gu Kaizhi
Gu Kaizhi (348-409) was born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province), Han nationality. Outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet. Gu Kaizhi is well-read and good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting.
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.
3. Lu Tanwei
Lu Tanwei? -about 485), Han nationality, Wuxian (now Suzhou) people. Zhang Yanyuan, a painter of Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, recorded more than 70 of his paintings in Notes on Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties, covering a wide range of subjects, from sages' paintings and figures of Buddha statues to birds and beasts. 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.
4. Wu Daozi
Wu Daozi (about 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and his painting history was regarded as a saint. Han nationality, from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). Born around 680 AD (the first year of Yonglong), he died around 758 AD (the first year of Gan Yuan).
He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He, watched sword dancing and experienced the skill of using a pen. 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.
Painting style
1, Zhang Monk You
The introduction of calligraphy uses the methods of "point, drag, fork and stroke" in the pen to enter the painting, which greatly enriches the techniques of Chinese painting and brings new forms to the picture. "Zhang and Wu (Tao Zi) are wonderful, but the pen is just a little, which seems to have been exhausted. When I left this painting, I saw its absence. Although it is not well written, it is also intentional. " In order to distinguish it from Gu and Lu's tight brushwork, Zhang Sengyou's painting method is called "sparse brushwork".
2. Gu Kaizhi
His painter Fawei has changed again. His paintings are full of colors, slightly embellished with rich colors, and do not seek halo decoration. The handwriting is meticulous and firm, such as silkworms spinning and spring clouds fluttering.
3. Lu Tanwei
In artistic expression, Lu's painting style is characterized by vigorous brushwork, emphasizing the beauty of fine print with backbone, which is also related to the aesthetic fashion at that time. The words "paying attention to spirit" and "paying attention to bones" mentioned above refer to the beauty of the strength of lines in Lu Tanwei's paintings and the beauty of the rigidity of inner life.
4. Wu Daozi
He is good at absorbing the essence from complex object forms and generalizing concave-convex surfaces and yin-yang surfaces into irreducible "lines". Combining the internal movement of objects, he formed the organizational rules of clothing lines such as height, edge, depth, inclination, rolling, folding, floating and lifting posture, and portrayed the character of objects completely based on the organization of lines.
This line has strict requirements, each line meets the requirements of vivid modeling, each line is full of rhythmic beauty, and it is a creative line that combines the achievements of the previous generation.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Fathers of Painters