Famous Chinese painting artists – 18 top Chinese painting masters

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Chinese painting is undoubtedly unique in the world art. The emergence, formation and development of Chinese painting not only has a long history, but also has profound cultural roots.

In the modern and contemporary painting world where political, ideological and cultural changes are more prominent, social changes and ideological and cultural evolution promote each other and alternately, and the fertile soil of thought has nourished many painters who have had a great impact on the art world and the Chinese painting world. Today, let’s enjoy the outstanding style of these art giants who can’t jump in the history of Chinese painting!

(Note: Modern times refers to the period between the beginning of the Sino-British Opium War in 1840 and the May Fourth Movement in 1919. It was modern from 1919 to 1949, and contemporary after 1949. The rankings are based on time.)

1.Wu Changshuo

Wu Changshuo (1844~1927) was born in Anji, Zhejiang Province. “Poetry, book, painting, seal” four great master. His works are “Tianzhu Flower”, “Wisteria Diagram”, “Ink Lotus Diagram”, “Apricot Flower Diagram” and so on.

吴昌硕 葫芦

吴昌硕 露气

吴昌硕 天竹水仙轴

Two, Qi Baishi

Qi Baishi (1864~1957), Hunan Xiangtan. He reached the top of traditional Chinese painting, freehand brushwork peak, combination of traditional Chinese painting and freehand brushwork become a master. Made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese painting art. Representative works are shrimp, crab, peony, morning glory, frogs shouting ten miles out of the mountain spring and so on. Published Qi Baishi paintings.

牡丹

虾

蛙声十里出山泉

Huang Binhong

Huang Binhong (1865~1955) was an outstanding modern painter. His native place was Shixian County, Anhui Province, and he was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. In the history of modern Chinese painting, there is a saying that “South Huang and North Qi”, “North Qi” refers to Qi Baishi, a master of flower and bird painting living in Beijing, and “South Huang” refers to Huang Binhong, a master of landscape painting in Zhejiang Province. The two men are put together by the art world, which shows that Huang Binhong’s artistic skills and achievements are extraordinary.

黄宾虹 雨景写意轴 1952年（浙江省博物馆藏）

黄宾虹 富春秋色

黄宾虹 黄山写景图轴 1952年 浙江省博物馆藏

黄宾虹 青山出云

四、高剑父

Gao Jianfu (1879~1951) was a modern Chinese painter, art educator and one of the founders of Lingnan Painting School. Gao Jianfu is good at both freehand brushwork and fine brushwork. In the landscape, characters, feathers, flowers and even grass, insects and animals, omnipotent. He boldly integrated a variety of traditional painting techniques, but also learned from Japanese painting, Western painting, emphasis on perspective and three-dimensional sense, bold color and other performance techniques, and pay attention to sketching, thus creating his own new style.

高剑父 秋鹰图

高剑父 锦鸡

高剑父 1946年作 芙蓉鸳鸯

五、于非闇

Yu Feiyin (1889~1959) was a master of fine brushwork. Painting advocates to master the ancient rather than the ancient, more heavy teacher of nature. It can reproduce the instantaneous dynamic characteristics of a grass and a leaf, and is not like a still life.

《白牡丹》立轴，1945年作

《草虫图》立轴，1940年作

《富贵图》镜心

六、朱屺瞻

Zhu Qizhan (1892~1996) was a modern Chinese painter. Good at landscape, flowers, especially fine orchid, bamboo, stone. The creation inherits the tradition, blends Chinese and Western, is committed to innovation, and the ink is vigorous and magnificent, with distinct national characteristics and personal style.

七、徐悲鸿

Xu Beihong (1895~1953) was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Is our modern outstanding, famous painter, educator, modern painting art master. The horse painting is known to the world, the brushwork is vigorous, the spirit is magnificent, the cloth avoids the color, all have new ideas. His representative work “Galloping Horses” is the most beloved. Intercropping flowers, birds and cats, also unique style, full of interest. He is the author of “Pulu Move”, “Chu Lun Masterpiece”, “Hui Hong Sketch collection”, “Hui Hong Oil painting collection”, “Hui Hong Color ink painting collection” and so on.

《奔马图》1941年，纸本水墨130×76厘米 徐悲鸿纪念馆藏

八、刘海粟

Liu Haisu (1896-1994) was an outstanding modern painter and art educator. The early years of oil painting, ancient sinking male. As a Chinese painting, the lines have the force of steel. After focusing on the splash-ink method, the pen flies ink dance, and the spirit is extraordinary. In his later years, he used the splashing method, colorful and vigorous.

刘海粟 黄山奇峰图

刘海粟 1976年作 荷花

刘海粟 1978年作 天平观朝晖

弘一法师、吴昌硕书法 黄铜紫铜 特制镇纸 镇尺 包邮！

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九、潘天寿

Pan Tianshou (1897-1971) was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province. He is good at freehand painting flowers and birds and landscapes, occasionally making figures. Pan Tianshou’s finger painting can also be described as unique, and the achievement is extremely outstanding. He is the author of “The History of Chinese Painting” and “Listening to the Pavilion Painting Essay”. He is a master artist and art educator. Pan Tianshou is good at freehand painting flowers and birds and landscapes. He is good at drawing eagles, mynas, fruits and vegetables, pines, plums, etc. Bold strokes, careful touches. Ink color criss-cross, composition of fresh cang show, magnificent, infinite interesting rhyme, the picture clever, fascinating.

十、李苦禅

李苦禅（1899年~1983年），原名李英杰、李英，字超三、励公，山东省高唐县人，中国画家。擅画花鸟，阔笔写意，笔墨雄阔，酣畅淋漓，画风以质朴、雄浑、豪放著称。

李苦禅 画鹰

李苦禅 兰石八哥图

李苦禅 东瀛画家故事

李苦禅 芙蓉国里尽朝晖

十一、张大千

Zhang Daqian (1899~1983) was born in Neijiang, Sichuan Province. In the 20th century, the most legendary Chinese painting master, whether painting, calligraphy, seal cutting, poetry knows everything. In particular, he has made great achievements in landscape painting, combining painting style and writing, integrating heavy color and ink painting, especially splash-ink and splash color, creating a new artistic style.

《爱痕湖》

张大千晚年巨作《桃源图》

荷花

湖光山色

十二、林风眠

Lin Fengmian (1900-1991) was a modern painter and art educator. His original name was Lin Fengming, born in Mei County, Guangdong Province. His works include “Spring Sunshine”, “Riverside”, “Beautiful Woman”, “Landscape”, “Still Life” and so on. He is the author of “New Theory of Chinese Painting” and published “Lin Fengmian Painting Collection” and so on. He is the spiritual leader of the Chinese art circle in the whole 20th century, a master of modern Chinese painting, an outstanding art educator, and the founder of the China Academy of Art. He is a well-deserved master in the history of modern Chinese painting.

秋林

仕女

戏剧人物

十三、傅抱石

Fu Baoshi (1904~1965), ancestral home of Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, was born in Nanchang. He is the most influential Chinese painting master in China. His works include the huge landscape paintings “So Many Beauties of the River and Mountains” and “Singing under the Willows” in cooperation with the famous painter Guan Shanyue and displayed in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He was also an art theorist.

傅抱石 关山月 《江山如此多娇》

十四、蒋兆和

Jiang Zhaohe (1904~1986), born in Macheng, Hubei Province, was born in Luzhou, Sichuan Province. He is an outstanding figure painting master and art educator in modern China. On the basis of traditional Chinese painting, he integrated the long western painting, and creatively expanded the skills of Chinese ink figure painting. His exquisite modeling and profound expression of the inner world of the figures reached an unprecedented height in the history of Chinese figure painting.

十五、李可染

Li Keran (1907-1989) was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is good at landscape painting, redrawing life, and introducing the method of light and shade treatment in Western painting into Chinese painting, melting Western painting techniques harmoniously into deep traditional ink and shape images, and has made outstanding achievements. His works are collected in many major museums at home and abroad, and his representative work is “Thousands of Mountains are Red”.

七幅《万山红遍》：

11月15日晚嘉德拍卖拍出的1964年作品 《万山红遍》75.5cm×45.5cm

1999年中国嘉德407万元拍出的《万山红遍》

中国美术馆收藏《万山红遍》

家属收藏《万山红遍》

北京画院藏《万山红遍》

北京保利2012春拍2.9325亿元拍出

北京荣宝斋藏《万山红遍》

十六、吴作人

Wu Zuoren (1908~1997) was an expert in drawing and oil painting in his early years. The interspersed Chinese painting is full of life interest and does not fall into the traditional mold. Later in his life, he specialized in Chinese painting, which has a broad realm and far-reaching meaning, and combines his profound attainments of Chinese and Western art with concise and accurate images. Wu Zuoren is another leading figure in the Chinese art circle after Xu Beihong, and the camels in his works are also unique.

吴作人 1960年作 任重致远

吴作人 《双鸽图》

吴作人 《骆驼》

吴作人 熊猫

十七、关山月

Guan Shanyue (1912~2000) was a famous Chinese painter and educator. Representative of Lingnan painting School. He once studied with Gao Jianfu, the founder of the Lingnan Painting School. His works adhere to the spirit of Lingnan painting “eclectic between Chinese and Western, integrating ancient and modern”, with a distinct sense of The Times and realism, landscape painting and painting plum.

▲ 绿色长城1974年 纸本设色 中国美术馆藏

梅花

长河颂

十八、吴冠中

Wu Guanzhong (1919~2010), born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, was a famous contemporary painter, oil painter and art educator. From the beautiful Jiangnan scenery in his early years to the abstract lines in his later years, Wu Guanzhong uses the simplest form structure of dots, lines, faces and colors with rhythm and rhythm, and the picture is permeated with a strong poetic and verve of Chinese culture.

吴冠中 《水乡周庄》 水墨设色宣纸 70 x 140cm 1986年作

作为生于江南，长于水乡的画家，吴冠中对江南水乡有着浓厚的深情。正因为有着如此深刻的情怀，使他笔下的水乡流露出情真意切的雅致与领袖。

双燕

水乡

渔村

在近现代这一时间段，大家层出不穷，光国画史上极具代表性的艺术家都不止这些，更何况是其它艺术门类。中华文化博大精深，正是因为有了这些老辈艺术家的坚持与付出，中国艺术才呈现出了一派生机盎然的局面！