These are the four most famous people, followed by some others' introductions:
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the palace flower-and-bird painting was called the "yellow system", which means that there was a man named yellow at the end of the Five Dynasties and the beginning of the Song Dynasty who painted many rare birds, animals, exotic flowers and stones in the palace, and was called "Huang Jiafugui".
Li Cheng, a landscape painter, is good at painting plain mountains and forests, and can show the changes of mountains and rivers and seasons. He especially likes to make snow scenes of cold forests, and has the reputation of "cherishing ink as gold" and "being the first in ancient and modern times".
There is another man named Fan Kuan, who is a landscape painter. The style of painting is vigorous and magnificent, and he likes to be the main peak of the front. His pen is thick, thick and short, and it has become a "raindrop". Li Cheng, Guan Tong and Fan Kuan are considered as the great masters in the Song Dynasty.
By the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the most important painters were Zhao Chang, Cui Bai and Yi Yuanji. Zhao is good at sketching, expressive and expressive, and achieves the realm of "expressing feelings with flowers". The flowers and birds painted by Cui are light and vivid. Yi's works are real and vivid, especially flowers and birds, which are neat in style and beautiful in spirit and shape.
Literati painting formed a new painting style in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. The main painters are Li, Su Shi and Mi Fei. Li Boxue's poems are good at identifying ancient artifacts. Especially good at painting pommel horse landscape. He often uses line drawing, and his brushwork is like running water, but he doesn't color it. Visualizing the appearance and posture of an object is called "line drawing". Su Shi is good at painting dead wood and bamboo stones, and formally put forward the concept of literati painting. Make sure the status of literati painting is higher than that of craftsman painting. Emphasize the subjective feeling of artistic image creation; Advocate the poetry expressed by painting. For example, "there is a picture in poetry and a poem in painting". There is also a literary scholar who is good at ink bamboo. Because he once knew Huzhou, anyone who painted ink bamboo or learned from him was called Huzhou Bamboo School. Miffy is also good at stabilizing Gu Shuhua (in fact, he is better at camouflage). He studied under Dong Yuan in painting, and according to the changing characteristics of clouds and storms in the south of the Yangtze River, he painted the misty mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River with dripping ink and bright and dark dots, which has the reputation of "rice-dotted mountains and rivers". His son Mi Youren further developed and formed a new school of painting called "Mi Jiashan Water".
Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Xuan in the Southern Song Dynasty were called the "Four Southern Song Dynasties".
Li Tang is famous for drawing cows. He is a part-time worker and is good at landscape painting. It is characterized by a breakthrough in panoramic composition, more close-up shots, simplicity and prominence, and emphasis on artistic conception and creation.
Liu Songnian is good at combining characters with mountains and rivers.
Ma Yuan is a man who combines figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. He takes Li Tang as an example and writes vigorously and neatly. He painted rocks with a pen as a big axe, hard and angular. Jiao Mo is often used to draw trees, usually zigzag. Because most of the works are "one corner" and "half side", they are called "residual mountains and water" and "one corner horse"
Xia Jue likes to use a bald pen with water as a big axe, with old brushwork and dripping ink. Painting the pavilion is done by trusting hands, without a ruler. In addition, his landscape paintings only use one corner or half a corner, and together with Ma Yuan, they are called "Xia Banbian" and "Ma Xia".