The Study On Artistic Feature Of Custom Paintings In Song Dynasty

Custom painting is characterized by depicting social customs and people's daily life, and Genre painting of Song Dynasty came into its most prosperous stage compared with other ancient genre paintings in different historical eras. Genre painting of Song Dynasty creates an independent school by embodying a special theme, which plays an important role in Chinese painting history.First, this article analyzes the historical background and origin of Chinese ancient genre paintings by induction, comparison and summarization in order to have a clear idea about the way it developed and came into its highest level. The author finds that Genre painting of Song Dynasty changes life style and aesthetic concept of people at that time In Social, political, economic and cultural context of prosperity and development because the upper class in society want to show everything is in peace. Besides, the change in people's commercial perspective and improvement of life standards also matters. Custom painters in Song Dynasty (including Painting painters and folk artists) changed the themes of previous figure painting, which focuses on emperors, heroes, nobles Ladies dutiful son and honest women, etc. However, Street, castle, fun, child drama, street vendor, farming, weaving, crafts become the topic of Custom painters in Song Dynasty for the first time. Obviously, the embodiment of people from lower class, especially the working people is the main concern of custom painters at that time. Therefore, we can say the style in painting subject matter tends to be "normal", considerably broadened compared to the previous generation.Second, the author holds that Custom painters in Song Dynasty demonstrates the rich and the real aspects of life in urban and rural areas through appreciation and interpretation of the major works in Song Dynasty, such as, Zhang Sedan's "Painting of Qing Ming riverside". Wang Joshing'"Painting of spinning wheel", Li Song's "Painting of street vendor", Su Han chin's " Painting of Autumn Court Yingxi" as well as the anonymous painter's " Painting of Skeleton magic show ", " Painting of selling pulp " ," Painting of Eye drug acid "and" Painting of fighting Flower Drum ". All of these works not only tends to be "normal" in subject matter content but also has a natural simplicity style, content intimacy of people, vivid image and full of artistic flavor of life. No matter we see from the shining spark of democratic spirit of the ideals, or findings derived from a variety of painting of the gorgeous tone are enough to show that genre painting of Song Dynasty has an important position. in ancient China painting custom painting . Therefore, it has critical historical value, reference value and artistic value for us to study the economy, politics, culture and transportation in Song Dynasty.Finally, Through study and research on the Song Dynasty custom paintings, we can see that Custom painters in Song Dynasty had a great concern about folks life, fully demonstrates the essence of art, that is, "Art comes from life, and higher than life", which gives today's artists enlightening and reflection when they carry on their and artistic creation.