| Simplicity is the plainest factor existing in everything, which contains sincere vitality. The key ideas of Traditional Confucianism,Taoist Civilization and Buddhism are all set up and discussed at the basic of simplicity. "Aesthetic standards of golden mean" of Confucianism pays lots of attention to keeping objects' natural state of balance and integration; Taoist Civilization attaches plenty of importance to keeping everything's plain and simple essence, and keeping their harmony and integration; Buddhism pays a lot of attention to discovering simple and eternal beauty and wisdom from common things. In a word, under the influence of Traditional Chinese Civilization, Traditional Chinese Painters are always searching simplicity from objects' complicated changes in our world, and pursuing harmony in contradictory. They regard expressing the plain style as the principle of scalling the depth and height of Traditional Chinese Civilization. Thus Traditional Chinese Painters regard Traditional Confucianism,Taoist Civilization and Buddhism as their works' thoughtful basic, and regard conveying the objects' plain and natural essence as the highest style of Traditional Chinese Painting. As a result, in terms of the frame, Traditional Chinese Painters use the model and the colour to pursue plain simplicity. They use symbolic and moral generalizing to express the subjective spirit and emotion of things, and keep a simple and natural style which is beyond the feelings of people's sense organs. At the side of model, symbolic generalizing prominents the perfect and entirety of model, and makes the model link up the emotion between Traditional Chinese Painters and the objects; moral generalizing makes the objects in the picture possess the feature of personification and metaphor, and makes the model possess distinctive shape,rich and profound meanings, and better artist influence. At the side of colour, Traditional Chinese Painters are not limited by actual colours of objects, but use symbolic and moral generalizing to pursue plain and natural style, which is beyond the feelings of people's senses.There is much actual value in studying the key ideas about simplicity of Traditional Chinese Civilization and the simplicity of Traditional Chinese Painting. As modern Traditional Chinese Painters, we should attach more importance to a feature: Traditional Chinese Civilization and Traditional Chinese Painting both pay a lot of attention to expressing the plain simplicity of natural things. So the successful Traditional Chinese Painters often use symbolic and moral generalizing to portray the varied model and colour in the frame, expressing the objects' plain,natural life and people's emotion.In my creations, I follow the principle that Traditional Chinese Painting serve for simple life, so I try to pay close attention to the common people's life in modern society and portray their life. I make full use of the model which possesses symbol and moral character, and make full use of the colour with plain and varied changes. By portraying the common people, I want to show their simple and natural life, and show the perpetual taste of aesthetic feelings in Traditional Chinese Painting. So no matter what fields people come from, or no matter what age they live in, simple Traditional Chinese Painting will make all of them evolve sympathetic response.How can we study Traditional Chinese Civilization profoundly, and inherit them with a clear starting point? How can we avoid being trapped in the superficial skills in other Traditional Chinese Painters' works? How can we avoid some skin-deep artist conceptions to prevent us from understanding traditional simple and plain spirit profoundly? We will discuss these questions in this thesis. |
