Ten Famous Landscape Paintings in China

The top ten famous landscape paintings in China are as follows:

Fuchun City, Shan Jutu 1. Fuchun is a paper ink painting created by Huang Yu, a painter in Yuan Dynasty, in A.D. 1350, and it is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China. Huang was painted by his younger brother Zheng Xun (a useless teacher). He changed hands several times and was beheaded for "burning the painter's sacrifice".

2. "a thousand miles away." "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a picture created by Wang Ximeng, a gifted scholar in Song Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China, belonging to the first-class cultural relics. Now it is collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. In the form of a long scroll, the work is based on tradition and the picture is nuanced. Cloudy rivers and rolling mountains form a wonderful landscape of the south of the Yangtze River.

3. You Chuntu. You Chuntu is an outstanding master in the history of landscape painting, and You Chuntu, which is now in the Palace Museum, is the only masterpiece handed down by Zhan Ziqian, the father of Tang painting. This painting is not only a milestone of China's landscape painting, but also the oldest real landscape painting in the history of China, and it has very high value.

4. Xishan Tourism Map. Journey to the Western Hills is the representative work of Fan Kuan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, and it is also one of the representative works of classical freehand brushwork ink landscape painting. It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. This painting depicts the typical northern scenery, and the panoramic composition of the landscape gives people a sense of momentum, which is a prominent feature of this painting.

5. Xiaoxiang Map. Xiaoxiang Map is a masterpiece of traditional Chinese painting and landscape painting by Dong Yuan in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties. It is regarded as the pioneering work in the history of landscape painting of "Southern School" and one of the representative works in the history of landscape painting of China. Now it is collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. This classic Chinese painting landscape painting shows the scenery in the south, and draws lakes and mountains. The mountains are gentle and continuous, and there are endless sandbars and reeds in large waters. The mountains are covered with horses, which gives the picture a strong sense of space and presents a foggy landscape in the south of the Yangtze River.

6. Maolin Yao Yuan Map. The Cave in Maolin was created by Li Cheng and is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. This painting depicts the scenery in summer, which is delicate and beautiful in terms of painting techniques. The combination of the "three distances" method of picture composition and the arrangement of primary and secondary density of landscape construction all reveal the typical atmosphere of landscape painting in the Northern Song Dynasty.

7. Jiang Fanting. The Pavilion on the River is a landscape painting created by Li Sixun, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, and is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China. This painting depicts swimming in spring. It is a landscape painting with "green landscape" and "golden landscape" as the main works, and it is a representative work of the style and characteristics of early green landscape painting in China.

8. Huang Ming's Running Script Map. Ming Taizu Shutu is the work of landscape painters in the Tang Dynasty, and it is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Although this magnificent picture of green mountains and green waters is called Xing Shu, it depicts the misfortune of An Shi Rebellion. When the painter expressed this theme, he avoided the embarrassing side of Tang Xuanzong's escape and painted it as a scene where the emperor enjoyed a spring outing, so this painting is also called "Spring Mountain Travel Map".

9. Kuang Lu Tu. Kuang Lu Tu is the representative work of Hao Jing, the painter of the Back Beam in the Five Dynasties and the "father of the Northern Landscape Painting School". The whole painting adopts ink painting, which has both painting method and dyeing method, giving full play to the advantages of ink painting, reflecting the situation of mountains and rivers exploring thousands of miles, and taking a step forward compared with the landscapes of the Tang Dynasty. It is a masterpiece of classic freehand brushwork ink landscape painting. This painting not only uses the "brushwork of scenery", but also embodies his masterpiece of painting theory, which has a great influence on later landscape painters.

10, early spring chart. "Early Spring Map" describes the upcoming mountain scenery in early spring, showing the majestic momentum of the mountains and valleys in the north in early spring, and the rendered picture is quiet and full of vitality.