| Wu Chang-shuo and Qi Bai-shi are the masters of modern Chinese painter. They are sharing the reputation of" South Wu North Qi", and both are the greatest artist in more than a thousand years of Chinese painting history. They not only had great achievements on their arts, but also had deepened the feelings and knowledge of people in the arts. They gave their works some funky-fresh emotions, and also gave the form of literati painting new vital force and contemporaneity. They are tireless pursuer of art, and their creative spirit, which a century-long struggle shows, had a model and pioneering. They not only inherited the tradition of painting, but also made further efforts on traditional painting and calligraphy, gave them a new life, affecting future generations. Their thousands of works throughout their artistic career, not only have collections in China, but also in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and many other countries and regions. Their influence is expanding into the Asia, and even into Europe. Although they have died more than150years, in the international art world, they still are famous artist. Scholars of after generations are inheriting their spirits, learning their techniques and essences.Modern Korea has once entered a dark period, because of the battle among the strongest countries in the world for world domination, Korea had driven to the decline of dangerous road. Especially, after the Japanese occupation of Korea, under full implementation of the so-called "culture obliteration policy", art, without exception, was also influenced by it. So that, since the "Confucius, Mencius, Laozi and Zhuangzi" philosophy, through the period of Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties,500years of Korean art history which absorbed the fine tradition cultural heritage from each dynasties, had involved in the vortex of imperial history.In this tough time, the art of "South Wu North Qi" Wu Chang-shuo and Qi Bai-shi had a significant role in Korea to maintain traditional cultural awareness. Especially their literati ink painting had great effects to many Modern Korea painters and calligraphers. Especially the impacts of " South Wu " Wu Chang-shuo to Min Yong-yi and " North Qi" Qi Bai-shi to Kim Young-ki are greater. This will be the main content of this paper, and a lot of space will be used to address this content specifically.Kim Young-ki is one of the central figure in the history of Korean modern art. He went to China early time to study Chinese traditional literati painting and calligraphy from Qi Bai-shi. When he returned home in every summer and winter vacation, he brought the works of Qi Bai-shi for his father and other people, so that works of Qi Bai-shi had flown into Korean society, and had given them the opportunities to aware and research on art of Qi Bai-shi. Also, in late1970s, he advocated to use "Korean painting" name that has more strong ethnic characteristics, instead of "Oriental painting" which is used in that period, has made significant contributions to the Korean art world figures.Wu Chang-shuo and Min Yong-yi also had inseparable relationship. Min Yong-yi, because of the Korean political problem, lived in exile in Shanghai for a long time. In this period, Min Yong-yi had close contacts with Wu Chang-shuo, and learned bamboo, orchids and literati ink painting. Especially the works of Wu Chang-shuo that Wu gave to Min, more than300carved pieces and calligraphy, are not only Min’s personal precious collection, but also Korean art collectors and lovers collection. Wu Chang-shuo played a great leading role in Korean Modern Art.Meanwhile, Wu Chang-shuo and Qi Bai-shi also had great artistic influence on many other major Korean painters. In this paper, the influence of these two greatest artists in history will be demonstrated, and also future development of Korean Art will be prospected. It has to conform to the times, seek development in tradition and go into a new’ Korean painting’ era. |
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