Royal Sponsorship And Cultural Identity

The palace - style" landscape painting of South Song Dynasty represtened the traditional Chinese painting for a time and was valued by Westerners and Japanese.And stressed by the royal government,!! influenced a genemation of Chinese.Yet, "tthe palace-style" landscape painting of South Song Dynasty came to serve as a foil to Chinese literati painting in the history of art because the literati culture had a deep effect on the traditional Chinese painting .The essay aims at returning the painting history of South Song Dynasty to the original aspect through Chinese peculiar sensation as well as images and documents.The essay first deduces the stylistic characteristic of "the palace-style" landscape painting from the forms of it ;then discusses how the style came into being from three respectiv viewpoints:social circumstances.the artists and their works;thirdly draws a concusion: royal assistance and cultural identity played a decisive role in forming "the palace-style" of landscape painting in South Song Dynasty;at lastjllustrates the cause of taking forms and its historic meanings: "the palace-style" landscape painting of South Song Dynasty clearly revealed that cultural sense of South Song took an important effect on the artistic evolution between two Song Dynasties.