Life And Freedom

The discussion about Chinese Literati painting, as a major part of Chinese traditional painting, relates essentially to the basic standpoint of the development of our present national art. With regards to such a realistic topic, only when we study rationally not statically or isolatedly, its appearance, evolution and its peculiar cultural background, can we draw some significant conclusion on the historical and logical premise. And so, comprehensive observing and studying the relations between Chinese Literati painting and traditional cultural ideology is an important means of understanding traditional art in a contemporary elaborating way.As one of the most important fruits in traditional culture, Zhuangzhou's thoughts was given new meaning constantly in the development of traditional culture, its various forms suggest a certain internal and logical relations between it and the development of traditional art, especially Chinese Literati Painting. The thesis aims at researching the relations historically on basis of social practice ration, in order to avoid mistakes in elaborating national art by means of Western interpretation.The thesis expounds the system of Chinese Lierati Painting from three parts: function, creation and assessment. Besides, as the theory of Chinese Literati Painting is always developing, its historical period is also worth paying attention to .