Celebratecd Artists

Gu Kaizhi (344-406), Chinese painter, one of the most eminent painters before the Tang dynasty. He was especially noted for his portraits but also painted landscapes. The Admonitions of the Instructress to Court Ladies (British Muse.)—the oldest-known Chinese scroll—is thought to be a 7th-century copy of his painting.

Yan Liben (600-673), Chinese painter, foremost master of the Tang dynasty. He became the most celebrated court painter of the 7th century and held several high public offices. The superb scroll painting Portraits of Thirteen Emperors in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been attributed to him but may be a copy. It represents the peak of early Tang dynasty art.

Wu Dao zi (680-740), was a Chinese artist of the Tang Dynasty, famous for initiating new myths in his artwork..

Tang Yin (1470-1524), better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligraphist, and poet of the Ming Dynasty period whose life story has become a part of popular lore. .He was talented in painting landscape, human figures and flower-and-bird.

Zhu Da (1626-1705), Chinese painter and calligrapher.  Most of his works are small-scale spontaneous studies of nature. His brushstrokes, which seem free and careless at first glance, are filled with vitality and descriptive power.

Xu Beihong (1895-1953), was primarily known for his painting of horses and birds and one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century.

Qi Baishi (1864-1957), was a Chinese painter. The subjects of his paintings include almost everything, commonly animals, scenery, figures, toys, vegetables, and so on. He theorized that "paintings must be something between likeness and unlikeness, much like today's vulgar an, but not like to cheat popular people".