The Exploration Of The Trees' Expression In Chinese Landscape Painting

The thesis summarizes the historical development of the trees'expression on the basis of the fully recognition of the trees'importance in Chinese landscape painting.The trees' expression experienced the Wei and Jin dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties, Five dynasties and Song dynasties and Yuan Ming and Qing dynasties. After this it developed into modern times when painters have been emphasising the symbolization of the trees. Comparing to the tradition and the modem Chinese landscape painting, we can find the difference and the same contents. The similar place is that both the traditional and the modern painters of the Chinese landscape painting emphasize practice as the original source of the creation on the basis of the combination of the rationality and the emotion. On the other hand the author always notes that difference still exists. The traditional painters were willing to pay more attention on the objective state of the trees while the modern painters tend to focus that the trees' function of satisfying the person's emotional and aesthetic requirements. For that reason the trees' expression has been tended to be personalized in modern Chinese landscape painting.In order to make the trees' expression much more better, we need to make improvement on four aspects which are summarized in the end of the article. Firstly we ought to focus on keeping compliance with the traditional Chinese landscape painting on the trees' expression and emphasize the truth of the trees in according with their original appearance. Secondly the combination of the rationality and the emotion is also what we should focus on, making the trees have the characteristic of the painters,which can meet the emotional requirements of the painters.Thirdly we need to concern about the traditional culture. On the one hand we need to know more about Chinese traditional culture, on the other hand we should be consistent with the traditional idea which is trying to make combination between the nature and our mankind. Consequently we can add more traditionally characteristic element into our painting, making our effort to pursuit for the essence of the Chinese landscape painting. Lastly focusing on the use of the pen and ink which has a relationship with the success of a painting directly. Paying attention to the innovation and variety of the usage of the pen and ink,we can reach to the combination between the emotional language and the pink and ink language.