Literati painters are the elites of the traditional literati in China who have the air of literati and officialdom,retreat to the deep mountains and have great taste in fine art.

Impaction of market economy on creation of calligraphy and painting——about Chinese modern literati painter;

However, accompanying with the trend of going diverse in world culture and the impact of market economy, contemporary Chinese literati painters are suffering from confusions that never happened before and are facing a miserable decision.

The above two points have resulted in the Practicality in portrait works of Yuan dynasty and divergences among works of royal portrait painters and out-of-office intellectual portrait painters.

Artist Prose,from a narrow point of view,refers to prose created by professional artists,yet from a broad point of view,by those who had high achievements in art.