The Artistic Style Of Xu Xi Painting School And Impact On Chinese Bird And Flower Painting

So far, there are more than a thousand years of history for Flowers and Birdsdevelopment, which is a branch of traditional Chinese painting. The formation ofthe theoretical system of in Tang Dynasty lays a solid theoretical foundation for thedevelopment of bird and flower painting. Xu Xi in Five Dynasties opens a paintingof "non-painting”—Yipin firstly on the ideological basis of the nature taught and lifeexperienced, establishing a bird and flower painting of " wild Yi "in secludingpainting on ink while advocating realistic modeling plump of bird and flowerpainting. His painting techniques of “sky and water through the same color play anextremely important part in the history of bird and flower painting techniques. In asense, Xu Xi painting school leads the development pace of Chinese bird and flowerpainting, gradually coming from the ancient Chinese traditional cultural origins.Xu Xi school has a far-reaching impact on the development of futuregenerations of Chinese bird and flower painting. It mainly behaves in: First, on thebasis of "Nature as Teacher, the source from heart”,“focus on painting from life”which later becomes a consensus and continues to this day. Second, in pursuit of the“wild Yi” spirit and ink vision, which gradually become the theme of Romantic andUncontrolled literati painting after Song Dynasty and are regarded as the ancestor ofFlowers and Birds innovation. Third, Xu Xi school’s technique and painting stylein “drop ink grid ", put pen freehand" has had a profound impact on bird and flowerpainting for the merging of Yi realistic painting in Yuan Dynasty. Fourth, thedevelopment of literati painting laid the foundation of Ming Dynasty freehandflower and bird painting. The innovative spirit of nonconformist integrated literatithinking, matured the freehand theory of flower and bird painting, explored andestablished the peak of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in history of freehand painting.Fifth, Xu Xi Painting school’s aesthetic imagery and philosophical connotations of "Borrowing Bixing","and painting focusing on feeling” promoted Chinese flowerand bird painting for the performance and pursuit of poetic imagery beauty at thejuncture of the Ming and Qing dynasties.Xu Xi painting school is the important derivative school in the history ofChinese flower and bird painting development. Its unique style ideas and techniquescontributed to the unique character of the bird and flower painting. I attempt to combperformance, awareness and techniques the essential characteristics of traditionalChinese bird and flower painting, of the root causes, to sort out its developmentalcontext, the painting style and the major impact on future generations. At the sametime, and to make more dissection for the inheritance and development of Xu Xiduring the development of contemporary Chinese bird and flower painting. and byextension, It will have great practical significance for the development of modernChinese bird and flower paintings and creation by that.