A Study On The Theme Of The People 's Paintings In Song Dynasty

In the early song dynasty, the imperial art academy flourished. During the HuiZong governance, on the establishment of the Imperial art academy, wide strokes celebrities, laid the foundation of the southern song dynasty art academies, hi the two Song time, figures, landscapes, flowers and birds painting of art academies pay equal attention to development. Rulers beat swords into plowshares, be fond of painting, and will vigorously support academies and the development of painting, and contributed to the prosperity of figure painting in song dynasty. Painting in three hundred made the giants of the figure painting as many as stars in the sky. Such as Shi Que, Yan Wengui, Zhang Zeduan, Li Tang, Xiao Zhao, Su Hanchen, Li Song, Lidi, Chen Juzhong, Ma Yuan, Liang Kai etc. The number of painter and works unprecedented in ancient figure painting.In song dynasty, the biggest characteristic of the development of figure painting lies in its refreshing change on the subject. It would change theme from the fomer generations of royal portraits, buddhism and taoism, the court beauty, the image of ghosts and gods, and other popular phenomenon to specializing in infant play, peddler, farming, customs, chastity and righteousness paintings. The painters of the imperial art academy are keen on performance of real life of urban and rural, civic customs and reflect the story of the national integrity. On the artistic thought, the painters escaped the "enlightenment and help ethics thoughts" given into by the confucian music cultural for a long time. They use a realistic creative thinking to express the beautiful secular life and the solemn and stirring patriotic enthusiasm. Immediately gas by the riches and honor, bright and clear wind surge, the enlightenment work of the pin, the mean talking about will completely uncovered. All the colour and excitement have been washed off, favorite childlike, In an instant, all show the joy of farming. The two song court figure painting circles suddenly blew a gale of fresh, played secular charm.The reason that subjects about the Song dynasty court figure painting toward secular are associated with its political thought background and the social culture environment. First of all, the political thought of beat swords into plowshares in two Song has caused the tendency "abandoning masculine and being feminine" era of aesthetic spirit. And painters are no longer interested in the grand noble political subjects and the testimonies guarded sacred theme, to depict the breezy real life and common customs. Second, during the industrial and commercial prosperity, the urbanization process is accelerated, the height of the civic culture developed demand for painting subjects also began gradually to develop in the direction of decorative and secularization. Third, the system of academies of relaxation and zen thought’s influence on art creation is also increasing, the court painters have more creative freedom space and soil, they are free to select subjects like "straightforward" type of artistic expression. Fourthly, special political landscape and the historical background of the subject matter of court painter choose also has a direct impact. After the Jingkang Event, the song imperial court is content to exercise sovereignty over a part of the country ignores the Emperors Hui and Qin, the dying pattern inspired the court painter strong resentment and deep thought of the old country. Finally, the literati paintings thoughts and Chan sect thoughts of two song court painter produced subtle influence, it makes a significant aesthetic characteristics of "common" and "elegant" which blend with each other that is the intervention of literary aesthetic thoughts and Chan sect thoughts in song dynasty.Two song court figure painting constitutes a wonderful art history, from the beauty of the secular painting subjects to change of pure and fresh and elegant artistic style that reflects the time background of song dynasty’s political, ideological and court the great achievements of the art of painting. Many works handed down from ancient times recorded and kept the present situation and the time background of the society at that time. Prosperity once genre, historical story genre subjects and nascent "reduced stroke" style of enriched the painting subjects, and expand the figure painting art form of expression, laid the foundation for the development of Ming and qing dynasties ink spring style. The attention livelihood of the people in the song dynasty painter genre painting has caused the painting in the realistic subject matter attention and thinking, the prosperity and development of the modern painting art in China has a huge influence.