Discussing On Wang Hanshan's Comfortable Flower And Bird Painting Arts

During the 20^thcentury,China has experienced several historical periods:revolution,warfare,movement and construction.At the same time,Chinese traditional culture and art also have experienced the fate full of frustrations.But its development course wasn't interrupted,it still continually create and renew.Traditional Chinese painting—the exhibition of Chinese culture—also has experienced the ups and downs for a century,It could roughly sum up into the courses of being negated,being approved,being negated and being recognized anew.Till the last 20 years of 20^thcentury,the domain of Chinese fine art appeared prosperous aspect.Wang Hanshan was an artist who lived in this epoch.Like most of the artists of his times,he's experienced the revolution struggle of the whole nation's opposing the imperialism and the feudalism before the nation's foundation,suffered the oppressiveness caused by the unprecedented "Culture Revolution",and met the spring for free creation.He had accepted regular college education,so he had rather superior basic painting skill.However,the distinctive and unparalleled personality creation in his art was quite different from others.His art came from tradition,but also had modern perception.That's to say,his art became independent out of tradition and trend.The form reasons of this outstanding individual create closely related to the culture and art environment and his own life experience besides his personality.He copied Jieziyuan Album of Picture when he was a child,therefore,he was educated in Nanjing Painting Technincal College.At the college,he modeled himself after Mr Gao Xishun,moreover,he was trained with down-to-earth realistic basic skill and superior model ling ability,Later on,he studied comfortable flower and bird painting as one of Mr Pan Tianshou's disciples.However,his learning life and art career were not very successful.At the beginning of 1950s',for a variety of social history,his art create was delayed and interrupted.Up to early 1980s',he took up his brush anew and engaged in his art create.Long-term life in countryside produced him plain and candid like a peasant.The objects he portrayed were the common things in the countryside.So someone said that he was a peasant artist,and some others said that he was a scholar artist.But I think,the two judgements were both partial.In relation to peasant artists,his painting were more succinct and lively,and full of more bookish spirit and exhibition power.In relation to scholar artists,his painting were more plain,popularization and easy of approach.Professor Li Zhengtian said,"set our views on the world civilization history,we can see that Senior Wang's paintings basically take the plain,refreshing and vigorous side from Chinese tradional scholar painting.This feature is also the modern people's expectation and the urgent create spirit of China." These individual temperament and modern consciousness made him unique on the domain of art during the last 20 years of 20^th century.His status was always an intellectual interweaved by traditional culture and modern culture.We should hold broad culture field of vision and put his achievement on literature,painting and calligraphy together when we are making study on him.The article pay more attention to study his culture mentality,culture spirit and culture character which were formed afterwards.To be sure,it also concerns his inborn temperament and character.Wang Hanshan's art was mainly in the domain of flower and bird painting.At the head of him,there had already towered over three peaks,they were Wu Changshuo,Qi Baishi and Pan Tianshou.It's very difficult to exceed these peaks.And it's also difficult to succeed without original spirit dancing with chains,independent personality temperament and the strong sense of duty as an artist.But Wang Hanshan made the comfortable flower and bird painting—which scores a success by temperament and interest—gain great development by using the method of integrating dry brush with ocher.Wang Hanshan has left us for 8 years,but his influence would not be stopped.His art and character charm will infinitely continue.His art left us great inspiration and prompted us reflect upon the question of how to paint Chinese painting.