This Lingnan style of paintings, The founder of the Lingnan style was attributed to Gao Jianfu. Gao studied Nanga painting in Japan, inspired by western watercolor and impressionist paintings, incorporated Japanese semi, western techniques and traditional chinese brush painting techniques to form a new style that profoundly changed the history of brush painting forever. Gao Jianfu, along with his brother Gao Qifeng and a friend, Chen Shuren, founded the New National Painting School after the…