Chang Kang was born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province). Outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet. Gu Kaizhi is well-read and 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.
2. Wu Daozi (about 680 ~ 759 AD)
A famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, he is known as the sage of painting in the history of painting, also known as Daoxuan. Han nationality, from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). Born in 680 AD (the first year of Yonglong), he died around 758 AD (the first year of Gan Yuan). Lonely and poor, you will have a painting name when you are young. He used to be the county commandant of Qiu Yan (now Ziyang), and soon resigned.
After that, he settled in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation. During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the DPRK for his good painting, and successively served as a doctor, an internal teacher and Wang You. He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He, watched sword dancing and experienced the skill of using a pen. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts and gods, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions and so on. , especially good at Buddhism and figures, and good at mural creation.
3. Yan (about 60 1 year-673 years).
Yongzhou Wannian (now Lintong District, Xi, Shaanxi Province) was a politician and painter in the Tang Dynasty.
In the Sui Dynasty, Yan was an official who scattered medical care and less supervision. In 656 AD, during the period of Tang Gaozong in Qing Dynasty, Yan Jiqi's brother Yan Lide became the minister of the Ministry of Industry. In the same year, he was promoted from the minister of the Ministry of Industry to the minister of the Ministry of Industry. In the first year of the general chapter (668), he was promoted to the right, and he was the duke of Boling County. At that time, Jiang Ke was appointed as the left ambassador, with outstanding achievements, so people have the saying that "Xuanwei Desert is on the left and Danqing is on the right".
4. Li Tang (1066— 1 150)
Southern Song Dynasty painter. The word ancient, Heyang three cities (now Meng County, Henan Province) people. At the beginning, he sold paintings for a living, and Zhao Jishi of Song Huizong entered the Painting Academy. After Nandu, Cheng Zhonglang was appointed as the Painting Academy to be summoned. Good at landscapes and people. Changing the laws of Hao Jing and Fan Kuan was bold, simple and magnificent, which was the first of its kind in the Southern Song Dynasty.
In his later years, from complexity to simplicity, he made a "big axe" with a pen. The stone he painted is hard and has a strong three-dimensional sense, and the water he painted is particularly powerful, which makes him feel surging. Part-time workers, starting from Li, became square and stiff in the back, which became his own style. And is famous for painting cows. Together with Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, they are called "Four Great Masters of Southern Song Dynasty". Existing works include Wan He Song Feng Tu, Qing Xi Yu Yin Tu, Yan Si Song Feng Tu, Cai Wei Tu, etc.
5. Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry and prose, familiar with economy, industrial calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and appreciation. Especially in calligraphy and painting. In painting, he created a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". Zhao Mengfu is also good at seal script, official script, original works, calligraphy and cursive script, especially regular script and running script.
His elegant style of calligraphy, neat structure and skillful brushwork created Zhao Ti Shu, which is called "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan.
Characteristics of Gu Kaizhi Extended Data
Good at poetry and prose, especially painting. Good at figure painting, historical figures, Taoism, animals, landscapes and other themes. Painted characters advocate vivid expression, pay attention to the finishing touch, and think that "vivid depiction is in the process of covering the eyes".
Pay attention to depicting physiological details, expressing characters' expressions, painting Pei Kai's image, and adding three points to his cheeks, and suddenly feel radiant. Good at using environmental description to express the interest and expression of characters. Drawing Xie Kun in the canyon highlights the interest of the characters. The clothes lines he painted are made of Gu You Si Miao, and the lines are tight and continuous, such as spring silkworms spinning, spring clouds floating in the air, and running water running on the ground, which is natural and smooth.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Gu Kaizhi