Zhao'an Shen Clan's Art Research

Family inheritance plays an important role during the long development of Chinese painting.However,academia pays less attention to so-called "Family Painting" for a long time,and studies about it is very few.The Shen Clan is notable family and great clan in Zhao'an,has produced clusters of celebrities including some famous calligraphers and paintings.This familial painting rose in Jiaqing period to Daoguang period.And this family produced a lot of influential painting talents,such as Shen Jinzhou,Shen Yaochi,Shen Jinghu,Shen Ruitu,Shen Ruizhou,Shen Fuwen,Shen Yaochu,Shen Hanzhen,Shen Xichun,Shen Roujian,Shen Jiwen,Shen Bingshan and so on.Their artistic attainments had been exerted influences in Zhao'an and its surrounding area,the whole Fujian Province and even the whole country.The impact has lasted till now for two hundred years.This article aims at familial painters of Zhao'an,and recognizes the whole sequence of thought of Zhao'an Shen Clan's art development.And then,the author from the perspective of fine arts and social culture,bases on the multidimensional development about clan,area and period,explores the familial artistic style's inheritances and transforms.And author further analysises the cause of formation of their painting style.In the meantime,from the point to thesurface,by analyzing and proving the achievement of Zhao'an familial painters and history contribution,and contracts Fujian regional art history,to manifest this clan's artistic charm.This article is created as a case of Fujian regional art research,by teasing out the venation of familial painting art to discuss the relationships between familial painting's inheritance and development of social culture.For Fujian regional art history,it is a benefit supplementary information assuredly.What's more,the method what using clan as an entry point to research painters and art style of whole area,it may offer the new referential perspective of area art research.