| 1.In the process of artists' exploring the technique to deeply expressing the nature's outlook and spirit, texturing method was born. Since it is a distilled summation of natural beauty, it just embodies the artists' aesthetic conceptions, and that's why artists of different stages and times employ distinct techniques to express their ideas in paintings.2.Comparing the delicate paintings by the painters of the court and the free and powerful ones by the literati and scholar-officials, one can clearly see the distinct aesthetic conceptions that differ sharply in the ways to realize one's ideas.3.From "carefully and delicately portray every stone and every tree" to "freely and represent the spirit of nature with instant strokes", artists improved their artistic taste from objectively representing nature to subjectively taming it. 4.From the magnificent and imposing mood of the landscape paintings with high and steep mountains of the South Song Dynasty to that of the implicit while expressive ones in which only one corner or one side was occupied in the North Song Dynasty, the texturing method developed from compact to simple. Aesthetic conceptions developed with social spirit. 5.The mood of paintings in Yuan Dynasty was calm and desolate, and the craft of using brush and ink changed from delicately displaying to implicitly expressing, which further strengthened the charm of humanism and the unity of Heaven and man. 6.With the rising of literati painting since the Yuan Dynasty, and the domination of the theory that painting and calligraphy were of the mood between "similar" and "dissimilar". Dong Qichang's theory of "southern and northern painting schools" further this aim, so that being after scholarliness became the main fashion ofthe time.7. Shitao's "one technique for one painting" theory improved painters' taste of expressing to a higher level, and this was a leap in aesthetic conceptions and led painters into a more pure and free space... |
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