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Taoism is the fundamental spirit of Chinese traditional culture, it has made a deep influence on Chinese political, music, drama, literature and art, especially effecting on traditional landscape painting. I intends to study the style of Gong Xian's art as an opportunity to reveal haw Taoism dade effect on Chinese painting and Chinese artists, and by studyingGong Xian' pursuit on Tao to reveal the inspiration to contemporary Chinese art.Gong Xian as one of the Early Qing Dynasty's literati painters advocated Tao in his art, and his paintings reflected the attitude and ideals of "making Art into the Tao" towards life,revealing the extraordinary spiritual realm. He created a scene like this:the spirit blends perfectly the natural mountains and rivers.Gong Xian'artistic style of landscape painting embodies the profound meaning of Taoism everywhere. Gong Xian performances the "muddy occupied by the enemy" of the aesthetic realm in his landscape painting, reflecting "invisible elephant"of the Taoist pursuit; The composition of the picture in Gong Xian's Landscape painting is wonderful and misty,which has an inseparable relationship with "occult" of theTao; the strong and vigorous stye shows the real scene of the south and that embodys of the philosophical concepts that theTao follows nature;The plain and naive style reflects Gong Xian'aesthetic ideas that go to back to nature, the idea of the origin of the formation isTaoist "Huai Su Bao Pu"; "black Gong" style is revealed the Taoist philosophy of "there" and "no" the dialectical unity of opposites thought; The quiet style reflects extraordinary spiritual realm of gongxian, the spirit realm detachs Chuang Tzu'pursuit of spiritual freedom.With the accelerated process of globalization, Chinese and Western cultures, tradition and modernity collide, Chinese painting faces serious challenges. Character of Chinese painting is in the gradual decline,because of cultural connotation becomes increasingly weak of Chinese painting. Therefore, the contemporary Chinese painting faces a new breakthrough, Chinese painting needs to absorb nutrients from the traditional culture, while Taoism is one of the part of the raditional culture. Gong Xian's performance of spirit in his landscape painting contemporary has gave us a great revelation.Contemporary artist should raise awareness the importance of Taoism, and absorb nutrients.from Taoism...