| As the important elements of decorating life and beautifying the environment, the color is sought after by people from the ancient to nowadays. The people of northern song dynasty liked the Chinese paintings, especially the enthusiasm of studying color was unmatched by other dynasties. From a mass of color gorgeous, bright and beautiful calm imperial court decorative painting works as you can see northern song dynasties was golden period in the development of Chinese painting color. Under the push of the emperor, especially the XuanHe academies of emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, a batch of imperial court decorative painting masters grew up. After the reform and opening-up policy period, from "85art movement",contemporary society changes with each passing day, from the colorful fashion to colorful multimedia digital equipment, suggesting that this is an era of enjoy the visual feast. The whole country has trained a large number of academic talents, which means Chinese painting art college is in an open, complex environment under the influence of both at home and abroad, their thought culture is unusually rich active, created a great number of colorful, good visual effect. At the same time, we also should be in deeply thought, how to inherit the spirit of traditional culture, and to adapt to the contemporary aesthetic requirements, to make the development of traditional Chinese realistic painting flowers and birds painting live a long life. In this paper, through a detailed comparative analysis of the northern song dynasty and modern color painting flowers and birds painting, tracing the tradition, summing up the moment, we don’t get lost on the path of development and learn the extreme hard peace of mind of the ancient. While I will inject modern ideas and emotions to new Chinese painting flowers and birds painting, enable us to keep up with the pace of the new era.The article is divided into four chapters. The first chapter mainly analyzes the color characteristics of the northern song dynasty painting flowers and birds painting and social cultural background from the aesthetic characteristics of song dynasty color painting flowers and birds painting, and explains the influence of the monarchy system of color aesthetic characteristics of that period. The second chapter analyses the aesthetic characteristics of the contemporary elaborate-style painting color and states the influence of the modern concept of art and economic development since the reform and opening-up and the "85art movement" to the color painting flowers and birds painting. At the last of this chapter, this paper discusses the academic painting, which represents the development trend of contemporary art.The third chapter is the focus of this paper, I have made a detailed comparison of the color differences, contemporary painting flowers and birds painting in northern song dynasty respectively and contemporary painting. Try my best to clearly grasp the traditional spirit, grasp era trend, develop the personal style, express the freedom and inner sunshine, which is creative ability for artists. In the fourth chapter the author makes a summary of the inheritance and development from the traditional Chinese realistic painting of flowers and birds painters, highlighting the spirit of the song dynasty painting color charm and cultural pursuit, demonstrating the song dynasty and the realistic meaning of modern color painting flowers and birds painting comparative study, calling for contemporary artists to create brilliant again. |