Elementary Research On Dong Qichang's Subjects Of Southern And Northern Faction

An art of Chinese mountains-and-waters paintings has a long history,and there were many person of academic and styles existed in this field.Because they addicted in a thinking model of explanation without experience,as a result,a systematic statement and deduction of their style are inadequate during the research on mountains-and-waters paintings.But the faction in northern and southern china, which stood for a new origin for theory of Chinese painting,made great progress on the subjects.Although the theory was not exact and illogic,but as a new theory,it was a expansion on the methodology and updating on aesthetic ideas.The subjects on southern and northern faction which Dong Qichang advocated was an indispensable chain in the development of Chinese art and evolution of artists. The theme of art movement happened in Ming Dynasty was to reset the position of the classical and concerned the object of art and their minds.The ideas from the art movement had been brought into all art fields,for example,Tang Xianzu was the representative in the field of drama,Yuan Hongdao in the field of literature,and Dong Qichang in the field of painting,especially in the painting works which displayed admiration of Chinese painting during the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty.The subjects on southern and northern faction were also argumentations between essence and appearance,their purposes of inner instincts was to expound the cultural meaning, spirits and seek for humanity.In Ming Dynasty,Dong Qichang,who had a complicated background,affected lots of other artists.He had close link with authentic faction and contacted with revolt thinkers including Li Zhi.Although he was a Confucian scholar with extremely high talents,he believed in Buddhism,and made Buddhist room as his room name,and loved tradition,at the same time,he advocated personality on the contrast of literature leader Wang Shizhen.Dong Qichang and Gong An Faction admired each other.In his life time,Dong Qichang was active in the fields of art appreciation,art criticism and art experience,and he had lots of achievements.The value of his theory on southern and northern faction was to set a principle for Chinese painting rather than divided them into two factions,and he pointed out which style of brushwork was the best,illuminated the importance of art form.Dong Qichang focused on differences between different arts,and pointed out the problems of sign and vision style.There was no doubt that subject on the in southern and northern faction,which Dong qichang pioneered was impressive.Whether his theory was objective or not,his theory and workings which led and developed the business of Chinese painting, brought prosperous times in the history of Chinese paintings.His painting had effected the Four Wang,the Eight artists and shi tao directly in the early Qing Dynasty,after Dong Qichang,there came lots of famous artists,including Wang Shimin,Wang Jian,Ni Yunlu,Xiao Yuncong,Cheng Zhengkui,Cheng Sui,Hong Ren, Shi Xi,Fa Ruozhen,Zha Shibiao,Gong Xian,and so on.After Ming Dynasty and before Qing Dynasty,Shi Tao and other artists were active in the field of painting. They were mostly the southern faction which got a lot of frame from people,thus, there was no end to those studies.Although the subjects advocated by Dong Qichang was controversial from then on.We can acquire something useful which casts a brick to attract jade in our new times.This article tries to study the subjects from the meaning of spirit of the southern and northern faction,and analyzes some other fields in detail to reach a conclusion of its aesthetic value and special meaning.