Contrastive Study Of The Artistic Style Between Wangmeng And Nizan’Landscape S Paintings

The landscape painting of Yuan Dynasty is the peak in the whole of Chinese paintings,and it appears alarge number of scholar-painters which representative figures are Wang Meng and Ni Zan. Asscholar-painters, both of them think highly of describing objects, individual emotions and personal artisticstyles. Their landscape paintings embody the spirit of Yuan Dynasty and Chinese traditional artisticessence.Wang Meng and Ni Zan’s artistic styles are different, Wang Meng is good at poet and handwriting,his landscape painting achieves a complexing in the extreme, his skills of brush and ink are changeable andperfect, it looks withered but moist which can express the south mountains covering with numerous trees.His landscape is boundless and beautiful, which not only adding the traditional painting skills but alsoforming a unique formal beauty of Chinese Landscape Painting. As a typical model of scholar, Ni Zan opena new style of simple and desolate, his paintings are unique which summarized as one river and two banks.As the masters of complicated and simply styles, they produce an effects on large quantities of painters andtake an irreplaceable status.The differences between Wang Meng and Ni Zan’s painting styles incamate on several sides: Firstly isobject choice, Wang Meng usually selects complicated mountains and vigorous trees and alternating figureactivities. In Ni Zan’s painting, figures are never be seen, he only portrays simple mountains and tall andstraight trees. Secondly is composition of a picture, Wang Meng adopts panorama composition of a picturewith gao yuan, ping yuan and shen yuan which is plentiful, the structure of mountains intricacy andtwisting, the handwriting in the picture is relative short. Ni Zan selects one river and two bankscomposition of a picture and long handwriting enriches it. Thirdly is brush and ink language, the brush andink language of Wang Meng is rich and changeable, cun and dot often be used, Jiesuo Cun, Niumao Cunand Juanyun Cun are mainly Cunfa. Ni Zan usually uses lines such as Zhedai Cun and Pima Cun, the lineexpress the mountains and trees properly. At last, the artistic conceptions of Wang Meng and Ni Zan’spainting are dissimilar, Wang Meng’s painting painting full of his enthusiasm of life but Ni Zan’s fill withhis peaceful and ignoring of fame and wealth.The common between Wang Meng and Ni Zan’s painting styles incamate on three sides:One, both of them are “Yuan Si Jia”, they are scholar-painters who think highly of painting with handwriting ways andexpressing oneself with paintings; Two, both of them are great artists who learned from Dongju; Three,both of them painted the life living in seclusion.The reasons of the difference between Wang Meng and Ni Zan’s painting are not in one, the timesenvironment, personal characters, their studying of traditional arts and the geography environment theylived are playing a part in the forming of their painting style.