Chinese painters
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    Jin Dynasty (265 - 420)
  • Gu Kaizhi (ca. 344-406) - founder of traditional Chinese painting


  • Sui Dynasty (581-618)
  • Zhan Ziqian (-)


  • Tang Dynasty (618 - 907)
  • Yan Liben (600-673)
  • Li Sixun (653-718)
  • Wang Wei (701-761) - poet, musician, painter and statesman
  • Han Gan (706-783) - paintings of horses
  • Zhang Xuan (713-755)
  • Han Huang (723-787) - paintings of the Five Bulls
  • Zhou Fang (730-800)


  • Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 - 960)
  • Guan Tong (907-923)
  • Li Cheng (919-967) - landscape paintings with diluted ink
  • Dong Yuan (934-962)
  • Juran (-)
  • Shi Ke (-)


  • Song Dynasty (960-1279)
    "The Golden Era of Chinese Painting"
    - Northern Song (960-1127)
  • Fan Kuan (990–1020)
  • Yi Yuanji (1000-1064) - paintings of animals
  • Wang Ximeng (1096-1119)
  • - Southern Song (1127-1279)
  • Li Tang (1050–1130)
  • Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145)
  • Ma Yuan (ca1160–1225) - landscape scrolls
  • Liu Songnian (1174-1224)
  • Xia Gui (1195–1224) - landscapes
  • The Four Great Painters in the Southern Song Dynasty were Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui


    Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
  • Huang Gongwang - (1269-1354)
  • Wu Zhen - (1280-1354)
  • Ni Zan (1301-1374) - river landscapes
  • Wang Meng - (ca 1308 – 1385)
  • The Four Great Masters of the Yuan Dynasty were: Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan and Wang Meng.


    Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644)
  • Chen Hongshou (1598-1652) - human figures, landscapes, flower-and-bird
  • Chen Chun (1483-1544) - landscapes
  • Dai Jin (1388-1462) landscapes and animal paintings
  • Dong Qichang (1555–1636) - landscapes
  • Gong Xian ((1618-1689) - landscape/mountains
  • Hong Ren (1610-1663)
  • Qiu Ying (1494? - 1552)
  • Shen Zhou (1427–1509) - landscapes/flowers
  • Tang Yin (1470-1524) - famous painter, poet and calligrapher
  • Wen Zhengming (1470–1559)
  • Xie Huan (ca 1370–1452)
  • Xu Wei - (1521—1593) - painter, poet and dramatist
  • Zhou Chen (1460-1535)
  • The Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty were: Qiu Ying, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.


    Qing Dynasty(1644 – 1911)
  • Bada Shanren (ca. 1626—1705)
  • Shitao (1642 - 1707)
  • Yu Zhiding (1647-1709) - landscapes, birds,flowers
  • Leng Mei (1677-1742) - human figures, court ladies
  • Jin Nong (1687-1764) - paintings of flowers,bamboo
  • Wang Shishen (1686-1759) - paintings of plum blossoms
  • Zheng Xie (1693-1765)
  • Wu Changshuo (1844-1927) - flowers,birds


  • Republic China (1911-1928)
    People's Republic of China (from 1949)

  • Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
  • Chen Shizeng (1876-1923)
  • Wang Zhen (1867-1938) - flowers, birds
  • Xu Beihong (1895-1953) - Chinese ink paintings
  • Pan Tianshou (1897-1971)
  • Feng Zikai (1898 - 1975)
  • Zhang Daqian (1899-1983)
  • Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) - one of the most important Chinese artists of last century
  • Li Keran 1907-1989)
  • Chen Yifei (1946-2005) - painter of the cultural revolution
  • Wu Guanzhong (1919-)


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    Chinese painting
    Loquats and Mountain Bird, Chinese painting
    Chinese Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279)
    Anonymous artist






    Chinese painter Leng Mei
    The Spring Evening Banquet at the Peach and Pear Blossom Garden
    Leng Mei (1677-1742)






    Chinese painter xie huan
    Xie Huan, Chinese painter

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