Wu Daozi, Gu Kaizhi, Zhang Zeduan, Ni Zan and Tang Yin.
1. Wu Daozi
Wu Daozi (about 68-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and his painting history was regarded as a saint. Han nationality, Yang Zhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). Born in about 68 AD (the first year of Yonglong), he died around 758 AD (the first year of Ganyuan). If you are lonely and poor, you will have a painting name when you are young. He used to be the county commandant of Yanqiu (now Ziyang, Shandong Province), and soon resigned.
Later, he went to Luoyang to create murals. During the Kaiyuan period, he was called into the court for his good paintings, and successively served as a doctor of worship, internal education and Wang You. I studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and experienced the skill of using a pen by watching Gong Sundaniang dance sword. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions, etc., especially at Buddhism and figures, and is good at mural creation.
2. Gu Kaizhi
Gu Kaizhi (348-49), born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province), was born in Kang and Hutou. Outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet. Gu Kaizhi is well-read, good at poetry and calligraphy, and especially good at painting.
Being good at portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc., people call them three unique skills: painting, writing and infatuation. Xie An is so deep that he thinks that there is nothing since the birth. Gu Kaizhi, Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou are called "Four Great Masters in Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's painting is intended to convey the spirit, and his ideas such as "moving the mind wonderfully" and "describing the spirit with form" have laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.
Third, Zhang Zeduan
Zhang Zeduan, the word Zhengdao, Han nationality, was born in Dongwu (now Zhucheng, Shandong Province) and lived in Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan Province). Northern Song Dynasty painter. During the reign of Xuanhe, he served as an academician, who was good at drawing buildings, houses, trees and figures. The genre paintings he made depict the shops, bridges, streets and battlements in detail, and the boundary paintings are accurate. The image is like being born and eager to learn since childhood. He studied in Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) in his early years and learned painting later.
Song Huizong worked in Hanlin Painting Academy, specializing in drawing palaces, especially boats, shops, bridges, streets and battlements. Later, "I lost my home and sold paintings for a living, and I wrote" West Lake Bidding Map "and" Riverside Map on Qingming Festival ". The surviving works include The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival and The Bidding Scene at Jinming Pool, all of which are ancient Chinese art treasures.
Fourth, Ni Zan
Ni Zan (131-1374), whose first name was Nizan, whose name was Taiyu, whose name was Yunlinzi, Jingmanmin and Huanxiazi, was from Wuxi, Jiangsu. Painters and poets in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty were called "Yuan Sijia" together with Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng and Zhen Wu.
Ni Zan's family is rich, knowledgeable and old-fashioned, and celebrities from all directions often come to his door. In the early years of Yuan Shundi's reign, he dissipated his wealth and wandered around Taihu Lake. Ni Zan is good at painting landscapes and ink bamboo, learning from Dong Yuan and influenced by Zhao Mengfu.
In his early years, his painting style was clean and smooth, but in his later years, he changed his style and was plain and naive. Sparse the bank of the forest, beautiful and spacious, concise and far-reaching, and cherish ink as gold. It's called "folding belt" with the dry pen on the side. Ink bamboo has a posture, a few strokes, and it is escaping. Calligraphy came from Lishu, with Jin demeanor and good at poetry.
Hongwu died in the seventh year, at the age of 74. His surviving works include Autumn Ji in Fishing Village, Six Scholars, Rong Xi Zhai and so on. He is the author of "Collection of Qing Dynasty Pavilion".
V. Tang Yin
Tang Yin (March 6, 147-January 7, 1524) was born on the fourth day of February in the sixth year of Chenghua and died on December 2 in the second year of Jiajing. The word "Bohu" was later changed to "Ziwei", and the number six was like a layman, a peach blossom temple master, a Tang Sheng of Lu, an immortal who escaped from Zen, etc. He was from Wuxian County, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili. Famous painter, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty.
Li Tang and Liu Songnian, the masters of painting, combine the northern and southern painting schools, with fine brushwork, sparse layout and elegant style. The figure painter inherits the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, beautiful posture and accurate modeling; He is also a freehand brushwork figure, and his pen is concise and interesting. His flower-and-bird paintings are good at freehand brushwork in ink and wash, and are free and easy. The calligraphy is fantastic and handsome, and it is taken from Zhao Mengfu.
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