The Research Of Ships And Harbors Painting In Qing Dynasty

Be the product of economic and culture exchange between China and Western countries, the ship and harbor theme Western painting’s appearance in Qing Dynasty has important significance. First of all, its appearance marked the economic exchange cased the culture exchange. Secondly, while the ship and harbor theme Western painting shown China to the Western countries, it promote the development of the Western painting techniques in China too. Finally, the forms, techniques, subject matters, styles are all reveal the context of the Western painting’s development in early China.Through scholars domestic and abroad have many achievements in the study of the Western painting in early China, there were no specialized studies of the ship and harbor themes. This paper based on the previous studies, analyzed and summarized the image, explored the reason, the develop process, and the style of the ship and harbor theme Western paintings. The article choose ship and harbor theme Western painting as a study subject, carding, classifying, summarizing and organizing the numerous paintings, explained and discussed the style of the paintings’images by using the literature analyze and stylistics research methods. Articles divided into three parts, appearance, the rising and the prosperity. The first part of the article discussed the reason and the significance of the ship and harbor theme Western paintings’ appearance. Compared to the First part, the second part discussed the important influence that suffered in the rising time. The third part discussed the images’change and the metaphor tendencies of the ship and harbor theme Western paintings in prosperous period.The study shows that the process of the ship and harbor theme western paintings’ development is not only the development of western paintings in early China, but also the process of economic and culture exchange between China and western countries. So for the modern oil painting’s development in China, it can learn something valuable from the study of ship and harbor theme western paintings.