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Before the creation of the book, Chinese art-related works mainly focused on appreciation and cataloging, such as Gu Kaizhi's (顾恺之) On Painting and Xie He's (谢赫) Classified Record of Ancient Paintings. Zhang Yanyuan thus pioneered Chinese art history by being the first to document painters in a chronological format.
Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guó huà (simplified Chinese: 国画; traditional Chinese: 國畫), meaning "national painting" or "native painting", as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century.
Liu Zhibai (1915-2003) was a Chinese ink painter. Liu studied in Suzhou in 1933, in China's best art school at the time: the Suzhou Fine Arts College (this school had exhibited in the 1920s more than 500 famous plaster sculptures, and brought from France nearly ten thousand albums of Western art).
Xu Beihong (Chinese: 徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung; 19 July 1895 – 26 September 1953), also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter. [1]He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th century.
Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is. Shan shui painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind. Shan shui painting is more like a vehicle of philosophy. [6]
Wu Daozi (c. 685 – c. 758 CE [1] or c. 689 – c. 759 CE), also known as Daoxuan and Wu Tao Tzu, was a Chinese painter of the Tang dynasty.The British art historian Michael Sullivan considers him one of "the masters of the seventh century," [1] Some of his works survive; many, mostly murals, have been lost.
Such paintings and associated art works are a reflection of the vigorous medieval overseas trade between China and Japan. Piling (Chinese: 毘陵/毗陵; pinyin: pílíng; lit. 'adjacent to hill (old Name of Changzhou)') itself was a part of Changzhou close to Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province. Many other genre artists can be associated with this ...
Wang Yuanqi (Chinese: 王原祁; pinyin: Wáng Yuánqí; 1642–1715) was a Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty. [1] Wang was born in Taicang in the Jiangsu province [2] and tutored in painting by his grandfather Wang Shimin (1592–1680). [3] His style name was 'Mao-ching' and his sobriquet was 'Lu-t'ai'.