There are too many famous Chinese paintings from ancient to modern times. Let’s list some common ones from modern, modern and contemporary times!
"Selected Series of Works by Famous Chinese Painting Masters of the Past Dynasties Wu Changshuo"
A key figure in the transitional period of the development of modern and modern Chinese calligraphy and painting art, a master of the four unique arts of "poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing" A great master of his generation, he was a famous Chinese painter, calligrapher, and seal carver in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. He was one of the "Four Great Masters of Shanghai School in the Late Qing Dynasty" along with Ren Bonian, Pu Hua, and Xu Gu. Wu Changshuo's art is unique and creative, and he is best at freehand flowers. He uses calligraphy in painting, integrating calligraphy, seal cutting, knife movement, and composition into painting, forming a unique painting style rich in epigraphy. He wrote plum orchids with seal script, grapes with wild grass, and flowers, wood, and rocks. His brushwork was vigorous, bold, bold, and powerful.
"Collection of Zhang Daqian's Calligraphy and Paintings"
In the 1950s, Zhang Daqian traveled around the world and gained great international reputation. He was praised by the Western art world as "the brush of the East". [1]
He founded the "Dafengtang School" with his second brother Zhang Shanzi Kunzhong and was the most legendary splash-ink painter in the Chinese painting circle in the 20th century. Especially in landscape painting, he has made great achievements. After living overseas, he combined painting style with craftsmanship and calligraphy, and integrated heavy color and ink painting, especially splash ink and splash color, creating a new artistic style. Because his poems, calligraphy and paintings are as famous as Qi Baishi and Pu Xinshe, he is also known as They are called "Nan Zhang and Bei Qi" and "Nan Zhang and Bei Pu", and their names are numerous. Together with Huang Junbi and Pu Xinshe, they are as famous as the "Three Families Crossing the Sea". In his twenties, he started growing a beard, which became Zhang Daqian's unique symbol in the future.
He has interacted with Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang Junbi, Huang Binhong, Puru, Lang Jingshan, etc., as well as the Spanish abstract painter Picasso.
"Qi Baishi Painting Collection"
He is a master of modern Chinese painting and a world cultural celebrity. He worked as a carpenter in his early years and later made a living by selling paintings. He settled in Beijing when he was fifty-seven. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures. His pen and ink are vigorous and moist, the colors are bright and bright, the shapes are concise and vivid, and the artistic conception is honest and simple. The fish, shrimps, insects and crabs created are full of natural interest. Qi Baishi, a calligrapher and seal engraver, took his method from the Qin and Han dynasty steles and tablets. His running calligraphy has an antique and clumsy style, and he is unique in seal cutting. He is good at writing poems and essays. He once served as honorary professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the Chinese Artists Association. His representative works include "The Sound of Frogs Ten Miles Out of a Mountain Spring" and "Ink Shrimp". He is the author of "Baishi Poetry" and "The Narrative of the Old Man Baishi".
"Collection of Paintings by Li Kuchan"
In 1923, he became a disciple of Qi Baishi. He once served as a professor at Hangzhou Art College, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a director of the Chinese Artists Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Painting Research Institute. He is good at painting flowers, birds and eagles. In his later years, he often painted large-scale full-screen paintings. His representative works include: "Lotus in Bloom", "Eagles", "Pine Eagle", "Orchid and Bamboo", "Sunny Snow" and "Waterfowl". In 1978, "Li Kuchan Painting Collection" was published.
Li Kuchan (1899-1983), a master of freehand flower-and-bird painting in modern China and an art educator, was originally named Li Yingjie or Li Ying, with the courtesy name Chao San and Li Gong. Born into a poor peasant family in Gaotang County, Shandong Province, he was influenced by the traditional culture of his hometown at an early age and embarked on an artistic journey.
"New Works by Fan Zeng to Welcome the Spring in the Year of the Dragon"
Chinese contemporary great Confucian, thinker, master of Chinese studies, master of calligraphy and painting, writer and poet. He is currently the dean and chair professor of the Institute of Chinese Painting at Peking University, a lifelong researcher at the Chinese Academy of Arts, the only tenured professor at Nankai University and Nantong University, a "Special Advisor on Multiculturalism" to UNESCO, and an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Glasgow, UK. Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Alberta, Canada. [2] He is a contemporary Chinese cultural master who integrates poetry, calligraphy, painting, literature, history and philosophy, as well as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. He has written numerous works throughout his life and has published more than 160 kinds of poetry, calligraphy, painting and philosophy, 119 of which are collected by the National Library.
Fan Zeng advocated "returning to the classics and returning to nature" and practiced the aesthetic principle of "taking poetry as the soul and books as the bones". He made great contributions to the development of Chinese painting and created the "neoclassical" art. First of all.
In 1984, the Fan Zeng Art Museum in Okayama, Japan was established; in 1986, he donated to build and host the Department of Oriental Art at Nankai University; in 2008, the Fan Zeng Art Museum of Nantong University was inaugurated; in 2011, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the China Arts and Literature Awards. There are 24 words of self-evaluation: I am obsessed with painting and can write; I occasionally write poems to express my feelings; I like reading history and have a brief understanding of the changes in ancient and modern times.
"Wang Xuetao's Painting Collection"
A famous modern Chinese freehand flower and bird painter. He has successively served as president of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Chinese Artists Association, vice chairman of the Beijing Branch of the Artists Association, deputy to the Seventh Beijing Municipal People's Congress, member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Central Liaison Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, and member of the Beijing Municipal Committee. He is the author of "Wang Xuetao's Painting Collection", "Wang Xuetao's Painting Collection", "Wang Xuetao's Painting Book", "Wang Xuetao's Flower and Bird Painting", etc.
"Wu Guanzhong Painting Collection of Chinese Famous Masters"
A native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, he is a famous contemporary painter, oil painter and art educator. Representative oil paintings include "Three Gorges of the Yangtze River", "Northern Scenery", "Birds' Paradise", "Huangshan Pines", "Lu Xun's Hometown", etc. There are more than ten kinds of personal collections, including "Wu Guanzhong on Art", "Wu Guanzhong's Selected Prose", "Beauty and Ugliness", etc.
Wu Guanzhong devoted himself to the creation of landscape oil paintings from the 1950s to the 1970s, and explored the nationalization of oil paintings. He strives to integrate the intuitive vividness of European oil paintings in depicting nature and the rich and delicate colors of oil paintings with the traditional Chinese artistic spirit and aesthetic ideals.
Since the 1970s, Wu Guanzhong gradually engaged in the creation of Chinese paintings. He strives to use traditional Chinese materials and tools to express the modern spirit and explore the innovation of Chinese painting.
"Selected Works by Famous Chinese Masters of the Past: Zheng Banqiao"
Painter and writer of the Qing Dynasty. Han nationality, native of Xinghua, Jiangsu. He was a scholar in Kangxi, a scholar in Yongzheng, and a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong. He mainly lived in Yangzhou throughout his life and made a living by selling paintings. One of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". After becoming a Jinshi, he served as an official in Fanxian County, Henan Province, and magistrate of Weixian County, Shandong Province, and he had favorable government policies. In order to ask for relief, the hungry people disobeyed the officials and returned home begging for illness. His poems, calligraphy and paintings are all unique and unique, and he is known as the "Three Wonders" in the world. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pine, chrysanthemums and other objects. Among them, he has been painting bamboo for more than 50 years, and his achievements are the most outstanding. His poems are fresh and refined, simple and pungent. Author of "The Complete Works of Banqiao".
"The Complete Works of Sun Qifeng's Calligraphy and Paintings"
Tenured professor at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, member of the Chinese Painting Research Institute of the Ministry of Culture, director of the Chinese Artists Association, director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, Xiling Seal Society Director, expert enjoying special contribution allowance from the State Council, important founder of Tianjin contemporary art education (higher art education and social art education). He once served as vice president of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. His representative works such as "Spring River Water Warmth", "Beautiful Spring" and "Autumn River" have been exhibited at home and abroad for many times and published in newspapers and periodicals. He is the author of "Chinese Painting Techniques (Volume 1)", "Sun Qifeng Painting Collection", "Sun Qifeng Calligraphy and Painting Collection", "Flower and Bird Painting Manual", "Sun Qifeng Teaching Manuscript", etc. On January 29, 2013, he won the second "China Art Award Lifetime Achievement Award".
"A Collection of Fine Works by Famous Modern Chinese Painting Masters, Pan Tianshou's Collection of Flowers, Birds, Landscapes and Figures"
In 1915, he was admitted to the Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School and was taught by Jing Hengyi and Li Shu Equal people. His freehand painting of flowers and birds was first studied by Wu Changshuo, and later by Shi Tao and Bada. He once served as vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and president of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the first, second and third National People's Congress and a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; in 1958, he was appointed as an honorary academician of the Soviet Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of "History of Chinese Painting" and "Tingtiange Painting Talk Essays".
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