On Formal Beauty Of Painting From The Perspective Of Watercolor Landscape Painting

The rapid development of technology and culture nowadays has greatly changed the world and people' s notion. Since it is the law of nature that innovation promises survival while routinism decays, innovation in painting is always a subject worthy of our attention. In this age when concepts change every minute, creation materials greatly enrich, and new creation methods come out one after another, it is quite an urgency to explore new creation forms.This paper focuses on form beauty in painting from the perspective of watercolor landscape painting. The first chapter discusses two layers of connotation in the whole painting field. First, form is the carrier of content from which the form can not be separated;second, form has its individual value for appreciation. It is this that holds our attention and that gives to the work of art its peculiar individuality. Therefore, it is necessary to create form beauty. The second chapter tries to analyze three major differences of form, including structure, artistic language and creation methods between watercolor painting and oil or Chinese painting so as to orient the development of watercolor landscape painting.The third chapter presents that form beauty should submit to content beauty, express the artists' true feeling andindividuality after it shows the pursuance of feeling, bourn and individuality by different kinds of forms in watercolor landscape painting. Then the paper calls for the watercolor landscape painters to have clear self-reflection and self-understanding so that they can choose proper artistic forms to express their thoughts, feeling and inclination in beauty appreciation.Exploration of form is an indispensable condition for creating new paintings of rich expression, time spirit and artistic individuality. In the sphere of watercolor landscape painting, form innovation should take this painting' s own advantages, be adapted to new development trend of plural artistic concepts and various appreciation interests, blend creators' true feeling and individuality, and expand to a greater field in which the content can be expressed completely and form beauty can be created in more variety.