Landscape Paintings in Guilin are more fantastic than that in rest part of China because of the real picturesque landscape in this city. Guilin possesses the splendid natural landscape. It provides many materials for those artists to paint with green hills and clean rivers. Many famous painters including Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Li Keran and Bai Xueshi have used Guilin's unique scenery as inspiration for their masterpieces.

Guilin landscape painting refers to the paintings that draw beautiful scenery of Guilin as the main performance object. The paintings use the traditional Chinese painting as the main body to reproduce Guilin landscape nature. Guilin landscape paintings play a unique place in the Chinese landscape paintings, they are seen everywhere in many of the national exhibition, brochures, newspapers and the Internet. In Chinese history there are a lot of painters became famous for painted Guilin landscape, such as over in the 15th century and 20 century of Qi baishi, Huang binhong, Xu beihong, Li Keran, etc. The older generation artists of Guangxi like Shuai Chujian, Yang Taiyang created quantity of excellent works of Li River. Since the mid 1980s, a group of painters in Guangxi, headed by Huang Gesheng put the center creation of depicting the scenery of Li River and the south of Guangxi, gradually formed a distinct regional characteristics and unique artistic pursuit of the painter group, and gradually formed a "Li River School of Painting".

Chinese paintings have enjoyed the international fame for decades. And among them, Chinese landscape paintings rank the top of them. Any picture can not take the place of the artistic conception in the landscape paintings of Guilin. Besides appreciating the value of this painting, watching the making process Guilin landscape painting is another interesting thing. You will find artists not copying what they are seeing totally, sometimes they prefer to describe their imagination which is caused by this scenery. When you finish your Guilin tour, do not forget to carry a piece of landscape painting so you can remind this fantastic city when you have a look of it.

Guilin is a cultural city with a history of more than two thousand years, giving it a rich cultural heritage. In the 6th year of Yuanding During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (111B.C.), Guilin was a county, called Shi An County, and from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, it was the political, economic and cultural centre of Guangxi. In 1921, the North Expeditionary Army led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen joined forces in Guilin, and the headquarters was sited in the Royal Palace at the foot of the Solitary Beauty Peak.

In the long years, Guilin's beautiful sceneries attracts countless men of letters, that they wrote many popular poems and articles, and carved more than two thousand pieces of stone carving and wall book. The landscape of Guilin has raised the Guilin people, the spirit of Guilin landscape has cultivated a large number of Guilin landscape painter.