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Who were the famous painters in ancient China?
1, Gu Kaizhi (348—409) was born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Jiaoxi, Jiangsu), Han nationality. Poetry and prose works, especially exquisite paintings. Good at figure painting, historical figures, Taoism, animals, landscapes and other themes. Painting characters advocates vivid expression, pays attention to the finishing touch, and thinks that "vivid depiction is in the process of covering the eyes"

Specializing in portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. People call it the three musts: painting, writing and infatuation. 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.

2. Wu Daozi (about 680 ~ 759 AD), a famous painter in Tang Dynasty, was born in Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan) of Han nationality. He was called "the sage of painting in one hundred generations" by later generations, and was honored as the founder of the mountain by folk painters. He is the founder of China's landscape painting, and is honored as a "painting saint" by later generations, and figure painting is "the best in the world".

3. Wang Wei (70 1-76 1, 699-76 1), also known as a famous poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei initiated the School of Ink-wash Landscape Painting, and his modern poems are strict in rhythm and unrestrained. His representative works include more than 400 poems, including Collected Works of Wang Moshu, Acacia, and Autumn Night in the Mountain.

4. Zhao Mengfu (1254~ 1322) was born in Song Xue Road Crystal Palace. Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry writing, calligraphy, painting, epigraphy, fluent rhythm and appreciation. In particular, calligraphy and painting achieved the highest achievements in the Yuan Dynasty, creating a new style of painting, which was called "the crown of Yuan people".

5. Zhu Da (1626- 1705), a native of Badashan, was an outstanding freehand painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Born in the sixth year of the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty (1626), he died in the forty-fourth year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1705). His surname is Zhu Mingxian, and he is the ninth grandson of Zhu Quan, the sixteenth son of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanjin.