Who is the representative painter of the Zen painting school of the Yuan Dynasty?

The representative painters of the Zen painting school are Gong Kai and Yan Hui.

Gong Kai was also a survivor of the Song Dynasty and participated in the anti-Yuan struggle in the late Southern Song Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty unified China, he traveled around the literary world in the south of the Yangtze River, venting his frustration through painting and expressing himself as a heroic and upright person. He was a typical survivor painter. The paintings of "Horse Bone Picture" (volume), "Zhongshan Travel Picture" (volume), etc. have sad and generous scenes with clear meanings; the painting style is extensive and the brushwork is vigorous, which is in the same line as the Zen paintings of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Yan Hui was active in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, at the same age as Gong Kai. He likes subjects such as gods, ghosts, and ghosts. His brushwork is unrestrained and he likes to use ink. His paintings are deep and rough, dark and eerie. There is a big gap between the beauty of harmony advocated by Chinese literati, so his influence is not very great.