Taoist Philosophy And Landscape Art

Taoist philosophy and landscape art are the two most important achievements in Chinese traditional culture, have a unique position and far-reaching impact in the history of world culture. And there is a close correlation between the two. Taoist philosophy no focuses on the art Originaly, but has become the spiritual soul of Chinese art, and especially produced the profound influence for Chinese landscape art. In the development of landscape art, philosophy spiritual, artistic purport, and Taoist philosophy always is same. In this paper, through exploring "origin of Shanshui" between Taoist philosophy and landscape art, Systematic research to find philosophical relevance between the two,combined with depth comparison about influence of Confucianism,Buddhism and landscape art,explore that Taoist philosophy is the soul of landscape art. This is very meaningful for the promotion of Chinese culture and rebuilding its modern value.Shanshui is a key relevance about Taoist philosophy and landscape art."Shanshui, in ancient times, as an antonomasia of nature, has the general characteristics of natural, represents the fundamental character of all things." From the emergence of Shanshui in Lao Zi’s "Way models itself on nature ","Flexibility as a sublime virtue", to that the Shanshui becomes the media of Zhuang zi’s " Happy Excursion ", to the Wei and Jin dynasty, Taoist "love Shanshui" promotes the independence of landscape aesthetic. Shanshui, always is the most poetic expression of the Taoism after Taoist abandon the "language". Therefore Taoist shanshui thought, is a general term that Taoist seeks the meaning of life and the concept of the universe spirit from the natural landscape, embodies the philosophical spirit of landscape feelings and Taoism. From a broader sense, this category of yin and yang standing between heaven and earth, has become a symbol of Taoist philosophy. And then on the basis of Taoist philosophy to construct three core Category of "Tao","Qi","image". These are the spiritual core of inherent relationship of Taoist philosophy and landscape art. Meanwhile, the highlighting of landscape thought has also triggered a conscious combination of landscape art and Taoist philosophy. By landscape art’s the Zenism of "Loving Natural Landscape", the aesthetic guidance of "unity of man with Heaven", as well as spiritual pursuit of "Le sheng Dasheng" to elucidate the relation of landscape art and Taoist philosophy.Landscape art is associated with Taoist philosophy profoundly, Taoist philosophy unfold entiretily in landscape art, and had a profound impact about landscape art. Taoist philosophy spirit reach to landscape art through the philosophical category of shanshui ideas "Tao","Qi","image". We can see Taoist philosophy topics of the landscape art, from the practice gist of "show Tao with shape", life themes of "vivid charm", and the general mode of "image without shape". Taoist philosophy spirit has been fully established in the landscape art from the artistic features of Nature worship, Void-quietness, Transformation of things, Catching meaning while forgetting words, Simplicity and Elegant in landscape art, and Taoist personality of the creative subject. Through the specific impact of Taoist philosophy on the landscape poetry, landscape painting, landscape garden landscape art, further interpret that Taoist philosophy and the landscape arts have an inherent consistency. Taoist philosophy has a dominant position in the landscape art. This is an important point of this paper to demonstrate. Confucianism, Zen also has abundant ShanShui thoughts in the system of Chinese Philosophy system, and has played a certain role to the development of landscape arts. Confucianism’s figural virtue with shanshui, Zen’s Sit in deep meditation with shanshui, shows the corresponding artistic charm in the landscape arts, and plays a supplementary role on the philosophy connotation and art value of landscape arts. This is undeniable. We can more deeply understand the profound and extensive influence of Taoist on landscape art by comparing the relationship between Taoism and Confucianism, Taoism and Zen with the art of landscape. On the one hand, Confucian " figural virtue with shanshui " concept, carved a Ethics in the landscape arts. But this ingrained Ethical rules limitate its leading role in landscape art from artistic quality. In contrast, the Taoist shanshui thought has always been filled with a life and liberty poetic, and given the landscape arts with eternal vitality and artistic value. On the other hand, Clarifing the relationship between Taoism, Zen with landscape arts that makes clear the core spirit of the landscape art, is the key. Zen is influenced by Taoism. From Zen’s imitating Taoist’s understanding Buddhism with shanshui, and Zen’s projecting art meaning to landscape arts, all is a blend of Taoism. Therefore, the main position of Taoist philosophy still embodies in the field of landscape art. Taoist landscape arts have unique modern value. Taoist philosophy and landscape art is an active participant in the transformation from traditional culture to modern civilization. In the industrial civilization especially developed era, the confrontation between man and nature is increasingly intensified, has become an important problem facing the world. So, the meaning and value of the paper lies in further highlight the landscape feeling and artistic spirit of Taoism, guides the human consciousness importance to harmony between man and nature from the spiritual, the human and the natural affinity of reconstruction, and out of the ecological crisis, has opened up a new research perspective.