The top ten famous landscape paintings in China are as follows:
1. "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is an ink painting on paper created by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in 1350. It is one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. Huang Gongwang was painted by his younger brother Zheng Ao (Wu Yongshi). It changed hands several times, and he died in two parts due to "burning the painting and burying him in the grave".
2. "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains". "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a painting scroll created by Wang Ximeng, a talented young man during the Huizong period of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. It is a first-class cultural relic and is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. This work is in the form of a long scroll, based on tradition, and the picture is meticulous. The vast rivers and undulating mountains form a wonderful Jiangnan landscape painting.
3. "Spring Outing". "Spring Outing" is an outstanding master in the history of landscape painting. The "Spring Outing" currently in the Palace Museum is the only masterpiece handed down to the world by Zhan Ziqian, the "ancestor of Tang painting". This painting is not only a milestone in Chinese landscape painting, but also the oldest true landscape painting in the history of our country, and is of very high value.
4. "Travel in Xishan". "Travel to Streams and Mountains" is a representative painting by Chinese Northern Song Dynasty painter Fan Kuan. It is also one of the representative works of classic freehand ink landscape painting. It is now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. This painting depicts a typical northern scenery. The panoramic composition of mountains and rivers gives people a sense of momentum, which is the most prominent feature of this painting.
5. "Xiaoxiang Picture". "Xiaoxiang Picture" is a representative traditional Chinese landscape painting by Dong Yuan of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties. It is regarded by the history of painting as the pioneering work of the "Southern School" landscape painting. It is also one of the representative works in the history of Chinese landscape painting. It is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. This classic Chinese landscape painting shows the southern landscape. It depicts a landscape of lakes and mountains. The mountains are gentle and continuous. The vast expanse of water is reflected by endless sandbanks and reeds. The mountains are often covered with hemp, giving the picture a strong sense of space and a more expressive effect. Get out of the mist of Jiangnan landscape.
6. "Maolin Yuanxiu Picture". "Maolin Yuanxiu Picture" is said to have been created by Li Cheng and is now collected in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. The painting depicts a summer landscape. In terms of painting techniques, it is delicate in depiction and well-organized in form. The combination of the "three distant" method of composition and the arrangement of the primary and secondary density of the composition all reveal the style of Northern Song Dynasty landscape painting. Typical scent.
7. "Picture of Jiangfan Pavilion". "Picture of Jiangfan Pavilion" is a landscape painting created by the Tang Dynasty painter Li Sixun. It is now collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China. This painting depicts a spring outing scene. It is a traditional Chinese landscape painting created with "green landscape" and "golden green landscape". It is a representative work of the style and characteristics of early Chinese green landscape painting.
8. "The Picture of Emperor Ming's Happiness to Shu". "The Emperor Ming's Visit to Shu" is a work created by the landscape painter Li Zhaodao of the Tang Dynasty and is now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Although this gorgeous picture of green mountains and green waters is called "Lucky Shu", it depicts the misfortune of the Anshi Rebellion. When expressing this theme, the artist avoided the embarrassing aspect of Tang Xuanzong's escape and whitewashed it as an emperor's spring outing. It is a scene of pleasure, so this picture is also called "Spring Mountain Travel Picture".
9. "Kuanglu Picture". "Kuanglu Picture" is the representative work of Jing Hao, a post-Liang painter from the Five Dynasties and the "ancestor of the Northern Landscape Painting School". The entire painting is painted in ink, with both matte and dyeing techniques, giving full play to the strengths of ink painting. It embodies the situation of vast mountains and rivers, and a journey of thousands of miles. It is a step forward than the landscapes of the Tang Dynasty. It is a representative work of classic freehand ink landscape painting. This painting not only uses "Jing's brushwork", but is also a representative work that embodies his painting theory and has a great influence on later landscape painters.
10. "Early Spring Picture". "Early Spring Picture" describes the scene in the mountains as early spring is approaching, showing the majesty of the northern mountains and ravines in early spring, rendering the picture tranquil and vibrant.