On Lang Shining's Fine Points Of Western Art Interwoven With Traditional Chinese Painting

In modern and ancient times,at home and abroad,communications between Chinese and the Western world is always an indispensible topic.In this new era, there are close contact and emulation of them in political,economic,and cultural issues.Not to mention the artistic communication,which is much more frequent than ever before. In the process of repeated application of introducing painting techniques to each others',it's unavoidable to encounter the collision between Chinese and western painting.Also,it's still a difficult issue for different countries to solve the problem that how to make the Chinese and western painting a better fusion and development.For Chinese painting,the main character of contemporary Chinese painting is interweaving the fine points of western art with traditional Chinese painting.In the constant exploration,it comes to be such problems:how should we "reject the dross and select the essence"from western painting?How should we learn and understand our traditional culture?And what should we do to fuse them for further improvement of our painting?At the same time,of course,we had some great achievements.We can find something that traditional Chinese painting absorbed some factors of western's from Lang Shining's works who lived in Qing Dynasty.Moreover,we can implate answers to some questions from his works.Lang Shining was a missionary came from Italy.He went to Chinese,here,to spread western opinions and their painting with his yearning for Chinese culture.He meant to spread western painting thoughts invariably.However,because of the great different aesthetic existing between Chinese and Western people,and in order to adjust to Chinese taste,Lang Shining had to study Chinese painting earnestly.And this accompanied him for more than 50 years.The most evident characteristic of his works is that he combined Chinese and western painting tactfully.In techniques,he applied traditional method---drawing the line of things---to his painting.And he used Chinese writing brush,ink,traditional papers to draw.The difference lies in that Lang Shining emphasises the varation of lighting and structure.While Chinese painting seeks changes in plane,Lang's works have tridimensional effect.In aesthetic,Chinese painting stresses similarity in spirit,on the contrary,Lang was good at shaping things by their shape.Nevertheless,his painting made great contributions that cannot be ignored to Chinese painting.And this is tremendous wealth of Chinese artistic history.By the introduction of Lang Shining's life,the formation of his artistic style and his achievements in painting,the article recommends Lang Shining's contributions to Chinese painting.Besides,it elaborates the similarity,distinction,and fusion between Lang's works and traditional Chinese realistic painting.At last,it shows the personal inspirations gained from Lang Shining's fine points of western art interwoven with traditional Chinese painting.