Chinese name: Wang Xizhi
Alias: Shao Yi,No. Lianzhai, Wang Youjun, Wang Huiji.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Birthplace: Langya Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong)
Date of birth: 303 AD, 32 1 year works.
Date of death: 36 1 year, a year of 379.
Occupation: calligrapher, politician and strategist
Faith: Taoism
Main achievements: Calligraphy is the best running script in the world.
Representative works: Huang Tingjing, Le Yi Lun, Seventeen cursive scripts, Preface to Lanting Collection, and Essays on the First Month.
Time: Eastern Jin Dynasty
Book title: Book Saint
Descendants: Wang Xianzhi, etc.
Burial place: Huiji (now Shaoxing)
Wang Xizhi's representative works include: Huang Tingjing, Le Yi Lun, Yuan Guan Tie (1 1), Seventeen Cao Shu Tie, First Moon Tie, menstruation Tie, Quick Snow Clear Tie, Funeral Tie and Preface to Lanting Collection. Among them, Preface to Lanting Collection is highly praised by calligraphers of all ages and is known as "the best running script in the world". Wang Jian is good at following the laws of Li, Cao, Kai and Xing, carefully studying the shape, imitating the shape with his heart, learning from others' strengths, preparing everything in one furnace, getting rid of the style of writing in Han and Wei Dynasties, and becoming a family of his own, which has far-reaching influence. His calligraphy is peaceful and natural, and his brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, graceful and graceful. The world often uses Cao Zhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo: "If you are amazed, if you are graceful, if you are in Youlong, you will be glorious and autumn, and Hua Mao will be spring pine. It seems that if the moon is covered by light clouds, it will float like the wind flowing back to snow. " Praise the beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black. Later generations commented: "If you are floating like a cloud, you will be surprised if you are smart", "Yue Long is in the sky, and tigers are lying in the phoenix pavilion", "Nature is natural, and the gods are abundant in the world", which was praised as "the sage of books" by later generations. There are some idioms about him: Be smart and get married quickly ... The most obvious feature of Wang Xizhi's writing style is exquisite brushwork and changeable structure. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy has influenced bookstores from generation to generation. Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Zhu Suiliang, Xue Qi, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Ningshi in the Five Dynasties, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty and Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty were all completely convinced and admired by Wang Xizhi, so he was praised as a "book saint".
Gu Kaizhi (348-409) was born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi, Jiangsu). Gu Kaizhi is knowledgeable and talented. He is 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.
Chinese name: Gu Kaizhi.
Alias: Changkang
Nationality: China.
Place of birth: Wuxi, Jinling
Date of birth: 348 AD
Date of death: 409 AD
Occupation: poet, calligrapher, painter
Main achievements: Four Great Masters in Six Dynasties
Time: Eastern Jin Dynasty
Gu Kaizhi's works include 3 volumes of Enlightenment and 20 volumes of Collected Works, all of which have been lost. The painting theory of Luoshen Fu Tu Juan is preserved in Zhang Yanyuan's Records of Famous Paintings in Past Dynasties, namely Wei Jin's Painting Praise, On Painting and Painting Yuntai Mountain. Its central component is: vivid theory, describing God in form and wonderful thinking. "Vivid" means paying attention to the expression of mental state. He thinks "Waving Five Strings" is very detailed and difficult to master, but it is easier to express mental state and inner activities than "Looking at Hong Fei". In painting theory, the concept of "writing spirit with form" is clearly put forward, with the aim of achieving both form and spirit. "Imagination" is the process of painter's meditation, experience and even conception, that is, imaginative thinking. "Miao" is to grasp the inner essence of the object skillfully. The idea of "moving the mind to a wonderful place" should realize the unity of subject and object, and realize the ideological blending among the author, the object of expression and the reader. These arguments are the pioneers of Sheikh's Six Laws. It has a great influence on the later creation of Chinese painting and the development of painting aesthetics.