A Study On The Paintings

In late Ming Dynasty, folk-characterized culture rose gradually with the development of commercial economy. And with it, the Golden Age of woodblock was welcomed. The Ten Bamboo bookshop gained reputation and fortune in Jin Ling, which established a unique style by manipulating watercolor-based printmaking techniques, providing the traditional woodcut prints with a new sight of artistic experience. Woodblock has evolved into not only the illustration attached to the articles, but also a brand new version of Art Form in an independent aesthetic value. "Dou ban" and "Gong Hua", the objects of his study, are the best representatives of his achievement of Ten Bamboo Lent Bookshop. Since there were a few of other prints being handed down from the ancient times, the printing works of Ten Bamboo Lent were collectively referred to these two books in this essay. These two Chinese paintings were not created by accident; actually they had their own deep factors of society, economy and culture in the meantime. ZhengYan Hu has developed his own artistic and aesthetic experience in a certain historic era.Through all the collections and reference about Ten Bamboo Lent, we found out that most scholars mainly focused on how to interpret the technique breakthrough of Ten Bamboo Lent, as well as detailed study about Zhengyan Hu himself. However, the influence of these glorious prints has not yet been carried out deeply. Therefore, this essay started from the perspective of the prints themselves, taking "Ten Bamboo Lent The Calligraphy And Painting" and "Shi Zhu Zhai Letter Paper Album" as the main approach, showing the creative characteristics of Ten Bamboo Lent, with outstanding motif selections based on the real world around us and attention to graphic visuality.