During its development of over 1,000 years, mountain and water painting underwent constant changes, taking on various features over various historical periods and as a result evolving into works of distinctive style. Since the 20th century its patterns, topics, functions, and even its deep cultural ideas have had great changes. Speaking of the development of Chinese mountain and water painting, however, people tend to take 1949-1965 for a whole stage of development. In fact the period of 1958-1965 as establishment of new Chinese mountain and water painting can be set aside and dealt with.Instead of starting from structure, connotation etc., this dissertation sticks to the study of "brush strokes"—the fundamental features of Chinese painting, analyzing brush strokes and their cultural connotations of specific historical periods, giving prominence to the rationality of "adaptability" brush strokes and emphasizing their time identity and independent speech right in the system of brush strokes value through the analysis of the two brush strokes practices of "transfer" innovation and "adaptability" innovation as well as the inter-time and inter-space comparison between unitary political culture of multiple mixture forced together and traditional culture. "Thoughts changed. So brush strokes had to" said Fu Baoshi once. Then why not looking back at the background of those mountain and water paintings then and the thoughts of those painters and the innovation value of those works from the dimension of brush strokes of changed and established new Chinese mountain and water painting today?... |