石涛,俗姓朱,名若极,是明代皇室的后裔,入清以后出家为僧。他法名为原济,字石涛,号清湘老人、苦瓜和尚、大涤子等,后人尊称其为“道济”。在思想上,他一生精研佛学和禅理,集儒、道、释各家思想于一体,形成了全面精深的艺术涵养;于实践中,他以毕生精力饱游饫看,搜尽奇峰打草稿,写山川造化于尺素,与自然神溶而迹化,功力深厚,化机在手,终成自家风范。石涛晚年 Shi Tao, surname Zhu, a very name, is a descendant of the Ming royal family, into the monk after the monk. His name is the original economy, the word Shitao, No. Qing Xiang elderly, bitter gourd monk, Dicao, descendants called it “Daoji.” In his thinking, he devoted himself to Buddhism and Buddhism all his life, integrating Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism into one body and formed a comprehensive and profound artistic cultivation. In practice, , Write mountains and rivers in the scale of factors, and the natural solution of God and traceable, profound skill, the machine in hand, eventually became their own style. Shi Tao in his later years