"Li Chengzhi's pen, myopia is thousands of miles away;" Fan Kuan's pen, from a distance, is inseparable from the seat. "What do you mean?

As landscape masters of the Northern School, Li Cheng and Fan Kuan have their own merits. In Li Cheng's paintings, the composition is mostly high or far, with layers of layout. Therefore, even small-scale works feel that the mountains are high and the water is deep, and there is a feeling of being thousands of miles away. Fan Kuan's landscape paintings have a special layout and close framing. It is often a mountain, which occupies most of the picture (a typical example is his masterpiece The Journey to the West, so it looks like it is in the mountains. Later generations commented: I can't sit outside in the distance.