Qi Baishi

• Qi Baishi (1864-1957), courtesy name was Wei Qing, art name was Bin Sheng, Jiping Laoren and Baishi Shanren, a prominent contemporary Chinese painter. He became a painter from a carpenter and he succeeded in painting. Many of his works had plants and animals.

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  • Anonymous

  • Xu Beihong

  • Pan Tianshou

    Pan Tianshou was born in Ninghai Zhejiang, devoted his life to art work and art education. He was good at bird-and-flower painting, landscape painting, painting human figures, and also had high skills in poetry and seal carving. He also painted hawks, plum, bamboo, stones and wild flowers. His works were powerful and tasteful.

  • He Peirong

  • Xingeng Daoren

  • Pan Linggao

  • Wang Xuetao

    Wang Xueteo, courtesy name was Xiao Feng, art name was Chi Yuan, born in Cheng’an Hebei, a well-known Chinese modern freehand bird-and-flower painter. He served as director of the Beijing Painting Institute, director of the China Artists Association, vice president of the Beijing Branch of Artists Association, representative of the Beijing City Seventh National People’s Congress, managing member of the Beijing Fifth China People’s Political Consultative Conference, member of the Central Union Committee of the Democratic Party of China, commissioner of Beijing city.

  • Yan Bolong

  • Wang Rong

  • Xiao Xun

  • Qiu Shiming

  • Wang Xubai

  • Bada shanren

  • Wu Changshuo

    Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), a prominent Chinese calligrapher, painter and seal carver of the late Qing Dynasty, formerly known as Jun Qing, courtesy name was Changshuo, art name was Kutie, born in Anji Zhejiang. In his childhood, he was influenced by his father and began to like painting and seal carving. He learned regular script from Yan Lugong and Zhong Yuanchang, clerical script from Han Dynasty stone carving, seal script from Tang Dynasty stone carving. The brushwork was influenced by Deng Shiru and Zhao Zhiqian. He was good at painting flowers and had a unique style of painting such as brush movement and composition. In ink brushes, flowers such as plums and peony, trees and stones were noble and beautiful, and his brushstrokes were vigorous and breathtaking.

  • Lu Xun

  • Xingeng Daoren

  • Wang Tianchi

  • Shen Weifeng

  • Zhao Bicheng

  • Zhu Da

    Zhu Da (1626-1705?), courtesy name was Ren An, art name was Bada Shanren, Xue Ge and Ge Shan, a descendant of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Quan. He was good at painting natural scerery such as landscape, bird-and-flower and bamboo.

  • Ye Gongchao

  • Fu Zengxiang

  • Chen Banding

    Chen Banding, courtesy name was Jing Shan and Jing Lu, art name was Zhuhuan Jushi and Shen Weng, born in Shaoxing Zhejiang. He grew up in a poor family and moved to Shanghai to make a living in 1894, and through the introduction of an acquaintance, he met Ren Bonin and Wu Changshuo. He learned painting techniques from them, in addition, Wu Guxiang, Wu Shixian, Gao Yongzhi, Lu Lianfu and other scholars. He worked at the Peking University Library after 40 years old. Later, he became a professor at the National Beiping Art College. In the 1940s, he participated in numerous exhibitions and charities. Since the 1950s, he served as the vice director of the Beijing Chinese Painting Institute, the chairman of the Chinese Painting Study Group, the director of the Chinese Artists Association, the researcher of the Chinese Artists Association, the staff of the Central Literature Museum, the member of the Committee for Reforming the Chinese Written Language, the member of the Third China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the member of the Second, Third and Fourth of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He was good at painting flowers and landscapes, calligraphy and seal carving. His well-known works are “Loquats of perpetual summer” and “Yellow flowers”.

  • Zhang Boying

  • Shixue Jushi

  • Zhou Zhaoxiang

  • Guo Zeyun

  • Wang Renpei