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Wang Shen: A Great Calligrapher and Connoisseur

Wang Shen (1037-ca.1093) (王诜): courtesy name Jin Qing (晋卿), native of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He was the son-in-law of Emperor Yingzong of the song Dynasty, a calligrapher and connoisseur.

Guo Xi: A New Style of Landscape Painting

Guo Xi (1023-ca.1085) (郭熙): courtesy name Chun Fu(淳夫), native of Wenxian, Henan Province. In the years 1068-1077 of emperor Shenzong’s reign, he was put in charge of painting matters in the imperial court. It was he who postulated the compositional schemata of landscape painting consisting of the “high distance”, the “deep distance” and the “flat distance”.

Wen Tong: A Master of Bamboo Painting

Wen Tong (1018-1079) (文同): courtesy name Yu Ke (与可), style name Mr. Xiao Xiao (笑笑居士、笑笑先生), native of Yanting, Sichuan Province. He was a successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination, and a magistrate of Yangzhou and Huzhou.

Wu Zongyuan: A Painter Influenced by Buddhism and Wu Daozi

Wu Zongyuan (?-1050) (武宗元) ：Native of Mengjin, Henan Province; folk painter in the Northern Song period. He specialized in Buddhist and demon painting, in the tradition of Wudaozi.

Fan Kuan: An Expert Lanscape Painter

Fan Kuan (范宽): courtesy name Zhongli中立; native of Yaoxian, Shaanxi Province. In the Tiansheng era (1023-1032) of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song he was active in the cities of Bianjing and Luoyang. He was an expert landscape painter. He started by following the style of Li Cheng (李成) and Jing Hao (荆浩) but after moving into Mount Zhongnan and Mount Hua to sketch from nature he eventually formed his own approach to painting the massive mountains of north China. Under his brush and landscapes form a coherent whole, and the myriad “split-bean” texture strokes,...

Zhao Chang: the Painter of Grasshoppers and Butterflies

Among all the gifts US President Barack Obama received during his visit to Beijing, there is a collotype of a famous Chinese painting "Grasshoppers and Butterflies". The authentic one was painted by Zhao Chang of Song Dynasty.

Huang Jucai: Like Father, Like Son

Huang Jucai (黄居寀) (933-?): courtesy name Bo Luan; native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He was the youngest son of Huang Quan, a court painter for Later Shu and Song consecutively.

Guo Zhongshu: The Master of Ruled-line

Guo Zhongshu (郭忠恕) (?-977) : courtesy name Shuxian, native of Luoyang, Henan Province. He was a philologist and a painter specializing in Jiehua (ruled-line) landscape painting, which was meticulous and refined in technique but which did not sacrifice spirit-resonance or vigor.

Ju Ran: One Founder of the Southern School of Landscape Painting

Painter in the Five Dynasties and early Song period (907-960), native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province; monk at the Kaiyuan Temple in Henan. He was adept at using long “hemp-fiber” strokes to model southern China’s mountain, which are loamy and covered with lush vegetation.

Zhao Gan

Zhao Gan (赵干) , Native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He studied in the Imperial Painting academy during the reign of Emperor Li Yu (961-975) of the Southern Tang period.

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