Wang Hailin, born in 1988 in Ningbo, China, is a highly acclaimed landscape painter.

Landscape painting, alongside history painting, portraiture, still life, and genre painting, is regarded as one of the five classical genres of modern Western art. From antiquity, landscape paintings have been preserved primarily in the medium of wall painting. In the Middle Ages, the illusionistic depth of landscape space was discovered. In the 18th century, the Sublime emerged alongside the Beautiful as a central aesthetic category. In the 19th century, a subjective gaze upon nature came to dominate painting. William Turner, John Constable, and the Impressionists understood landscape painting as a scientific and experimental exploration of supernatural processes of nature and perception. The avant-gardes of the early 20th century moved toward abstraction. In the work of Gerhard Richter, who began creating landscapes in 1963 and for a long time made them a dominant theme, landscapes and abstraction do not appear as opposites, but rather as related concepts of appropriating reality.