Refers to a highly skilled painter, often in traditional East Asian art. Can be used as an honorific title.
彼は当代随一の画仙と称されている。
He is acclaimed as the greatest master painter of our time.
Xuan paper; Chinese drawing paper
画 (picture, painting) + 仙 (hermit, sage, wizard). The term likens a master painter to an immortal sage, suggesting transcendent skill.