Expression And Composition Of Artistic Conception Of Zen Of JinNong's Painting

As the first one of "Eight Eccentrics of Yang Zhou" , Jin Nong' s painting esthetics thought was representative with artistic style by all means. Namely: Regardless of ancient method, express the soul only, the objection persists without change, advocating creation. Jin Nong who had his own humanities talent suffered from the frustrated life. He was fond of Zen and Zen had its deep influence upon him when he was a small boy. So, there were a great deal of artistic conception of Zen in his painting, and this was also his painting's artistic characteristic.The taste of Zen has internal relation with painting of Chinese literator , and they interact each other during their development. they all regard poem as the carrier, and the artistic conception as the medium, and in the end , they obtain the feels by satori. Jin Nong represented the state of his mind and satori by his painting and postscript.We can then understand the philosophy and culture content from the painting art of Jin Nong , and hold the inside innate character of Chinese scholar painting by the angle of taste of Zen .