The ten most famous modern Chinese painters: Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Li Keran, Huang Binhong

Ten most famous painters in modern China

1. Xu Beihong

Xu Beihong was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. He is famous for his paintings of figures, animals, flowers and birds, advocating realism, integrating Western painting techniques into traditional art, focusing on grasping the anatomical structure and bone of the object, and rich ideological connotation of his works. His Chinese painting is colorful, especially the galloping horse is renowned. His representative works include “Qunma Map”, “Running Ma Map”, “Jiufang Gao”, “Yu Gong Moving Mountain Map”, “Wounded Lion” and “Five hundred men”.

2. Qi Baishi

Qi Baishi was born in Xiangtan, Hunan Province. He worked as a carpenter in his early years and later sold paintings for a living. Good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscape, people, aging and changing methods, pen and ink vigorous moist, bright colors, concise and vivid modeling, honest and simple artistic conception. The fish, shrimp, worms and crabs are full of natural interest. Its calligraphic scribe, take the method of Qin and Han tablets, running books to spare the interest of ancient and clumsy, seal cutting into a family, also can poetry. His representative works include “Frog Sound Ten miles out of mountain Spring” and “Ink Shrimp”.

3. Zhang Daqian

Zhang Daqian is from Neijiang, Sichuan Province. Painting, calligraphy, seal cutting and poetry are all familiar. The combination of his painting style and writing, the integration of heavy color and ink painting in the later period, created a new style of splashing ink and splashing color. His paintings include “Lotus”, “Love Trace Lake”, “Yangtze River Miles Map” and so on. His artistic achievements have been hailed as “the most famous Chinese painting master today”. Antique paintings can be fake, “fooled” many identification masters. Xu Beihong once said: “Zhang Daqian, the first person in five hundred years.”

4. Li Keran

Li Keran is from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is famous for his landscape paintings. His works are concise and unique in style. He borrowed the pen and ink of the Great Bashan people and incorporated his own unique style. His landscape painting has a concise brush and ink, and at the same time has a concise brush and ink effect. His landscape painting works are full of vitality. He uses fine brush to outline the delicate landscape and thick ink to render the magnificence of nature. His works are full of natural beauty charm, known as the master of Chinese landscape painting. Masterpieces “Lijiang River Scenery Map”, “Thousands of mountains red”, “Jinggangshan”, “Lijiang River landscape” and so on.

5. Huang Binhong

Huang Binhong is from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. He is good at landscape painting, characterized by dry brush and light ink, sparse and elegant. His painting style is dark and luxuriant, the artistic conception is profound. His works “Mountain Dwelling Misty rain”, “Xin ‘an River Boat” and so on. He is known as the master of Chinese landscape painting. His representative works include “Shu River Returning to Boat Map”, “Coke Ink landscape”, “Jiuzi Mountain” and “Huangshan Tangkou”.

6. Fu Baoshi

Fu Baoshi, a native of Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, is good at landscape painting, especially at writing the scenery of springs, waterfalls, rain and fog. His painting style is bold and vigorous, with a strong sense of The Times. Representative works are “to be a fine map of the river and mountains”, “Qu Yuan”, “so many Jiao”, “Coal City spectacular”, “Snow field”, “Tianchi Forest”, “Mirror Bo Feiquan” and so on.

7. Pan Tianshou

Pan Tianshou, a native of Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province, is good at painting flowers, birds and landscapes. He is also good at finger painting, calligraphy and poetry. He showed his unique artistic style and talent by painting flowers, birds and landscapes. His works are full of vitality, bright colors and vivid images. His representative works are “Cultivating and Striking”, “Huangshan Pine”, “Chaoxia Map”, “Meiyu First eye Circle”, “Eagle Stone Mountain Flower Map” and so on.

8. Lin Fengmian

Lin Fengmian was born in Meixian County, Guangdong Province. He is known for his fusion of Chinese and Western artistic ideas and innovative artistic techniques. Among his works, there are landscape paintings depicting natural landscapes, as well as works depicting people and opera roles. He advocated the idea of “inclusive and academic freedom” in education. Lin Fengmian’s works are known as the father of modern Chinese painting. The founder of the China Academy of Art. His representative works include Groping, Humanity, Pain and so on.

9. Wu Guanzhong

Wu Guanzhong, a native of Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, his oil paintings include the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Scenery in the North, Paradise of Birds, Yellow Mountain Pines, Lu Xun’s Hometown and so on. He devoted himself to the creation of oil painting landscape and explored the nationalization of oil painting.

10. Li Kuchan

A native of Gaotang, Shandong Province, he was taught by Qi Baishi. He is good at painting flowers, birds and landscapes, and his painting style is famous for simplicity, bold and bold. His works often have a strong ink of divine beauty, but in his later years, he often made a large screen, showing his momentum and broad. He is regarded as the master of Chinese painting. His representative works include “Red Plum Blossoms in full bloom”, “Summer Picture”, “Pine Eagle Picture” and so on.