Top 20 Modern Painters:
Li Steam, Dou Shenqing, Cui Jin, Feng Yiming, Wang Miaotian, Ji Ruisen, Li Xiang, Xu Huiquan, Wang Ke, Zou Liying, Ji Lianbin, Mei Mo Sheng, Chen Hui, Zhu Xinghua, Li Yang, Chen Mengxin, Shangguan Chaoying, Han Jingwei, He Jiaying, Zhang Zhimin.
Painters are people who specialize in painting (e.g., drawings, patterns), and are painting art workers who specialize in the creation and study of paintings, including the creators of Chinese painting, oil painting, gouache, watercolor, oil painting, lacquer, and other types of painting art.
Categorized by country, such as Chinese painters, Western painters.
Categorized by painting materials, such as ink painters, oil painters, sketch artists.
Categorized by subject matter, such as landscape painters, bird and flower painters, figure painters, creative painters.
Categorized by painter's school, such as: Sea Painting School, Beijing-Tianjin Painting School, Lingnan Painting School, Changzhou Painting School, Chang'an Painting School, Huang Chyuan Painting School, Huzhou Bamboo Painting School, Zhejiang Painting School, Wu Men Painting School, Jinling Painting School, etc.
Expanded Information:
Painters through the ages:
1. Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties:
Gu Kaizhi, Zhang Shengxiao, Lu Tanwei, and Yang Zihua.
2, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties:
Wu Daozi, Yan Liben, Wang Wei, Li Si Xun, Jing Hao, Guan Tong, Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, Huang Tsuen, Xu Xi, Han Gan, Xue JI, and so on.
3, Northern Song and Southern Song:
Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan, Xia Gui, Wu Bing, Lin Chun and others.
4. Yuan:
Zhao Mengfu, Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng, Ni Zan, Wu Zhen, Zhao Yong, Wang Yuan, Pipeline Sheng and others.
5. Ming:
Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, Xu Wei, Zhou Zhiwei, Lu Zhi, Zhang Hong, Chen Chun, Lu Ji, Lin Liang, Zhou Chen, and Chen Hongshou.
6. The Qing dynasty:
Wu Zuozhang, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi, Wu Lixian, Bada Shanren, Shi Tao, Zheng Banqiao, Jin Nong, Yun Shouping, Bian Shoumin, Huang Shanshou, Xugu, Ren Bonian, Pohua, Wu Changshuo, Jiang Tingxi, Hua Yan, and others.
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