Xia Gui
Xia Gui (about 1180 years ago - about 1230 years ago), and for Xia Gui, word Yu Yu, famous painter for the Southern Song Dynasty, Qiantang (now Zhejiang Hangzhou) people. Song Ningzong (1195-1224) official to the highest level of painting to be Chao, and thanks to the band. Early years of work paintings, after the landscape painting known, take the law Li Tang, painting with rocks when the ink stained, with bald pen with water for the big ax split, called "dragging the water cracked." Penny enough, clear and pretty, good at refining tailoring, scenery and moving, quiet and far-reaching. Painting the landscape view mostly "half", "corner" of the King, the composition of a unique, "summer half" said. Is one of the representatives of the northern faction. Xia Gui painting and Ma Yuan is also similar to the descendants of his and Ma Yuan and called "Ma Xia", the two famous in the space of white composition, "Ma corner, summer half" is to guide the direction of viewers. Ma, Xia two plus Li Tang, Liu Songnian, was collectively known as the "Southern Song four". Xia Gui's son Xia Sen, also good at painting. ...