李成

Lǐ Chéng

proper noun #96,001

Meanings

1 Li Cheng, Five Dynasties and early Northern Song landscape painter, founder of the northern monumental landscape tradition and teacher of Guo Xi

About Li Cheng

919–967 · 画家 painter

Landscape painter of the Five Dynasties and early Song, known for bare wintry trees on wide misty plains. With 董源 and 范宽 he is counted among the founding masters of Chinese landscape painting.

Also called 咸熙

Characters

to accomplish; become

Examples

HSK 7-9

李成是北派山水画的鼻祖。

Lǐ Chéng shì běipài shānshuǐhuà de bí zǔ.

Li Cheng is the progenitor of the northern school of landscape painting.

HSK 7-9

《读碑窠石图》传为李成的作品。

《 Dú Bēi Kē shí Tú 》 chuán wéi Lǐ Chéng de zuòpǐn.

Reading a Stele Amid Wintry Trees is attributed to Li Cheng.

Tips

culture

His pale, sparing ink gave Chinese the chengyu 惜墨如金, 'to spare ink as if it were gold', first said of him. Real works were scarce even in the Song: so many copies circulated that 米芾 proposed a 无李论, 'there is no Li Cheng'.

culture

His best-known surviving attribution is 读碑窠石图, 'Reading a Stele by Pitted Rocks', painted with 王晓, who did the figures; it is now in the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts.

Stroke Order

李 lǐ

成 chéng

李成