| Huang Binhongis an excellent unique Chinese modern painter and the key figures in the history of contemporary Chinese painting link between past and future, who made irreplaceable contributions to the development and renovation of Chinese painting. Huang Binhong’s art creation and aesthetic thought were the essence of Chinese traditional culture and individual innovation. He had a very unique knowledge and experience in the expression of brush and ink of Chinese painting and summed up his "Five Kinds with the Writing Brush Method and Seven Kinds Use the Ink Technique" theory, which is a creative inheritance of the pen and ink spirit of original Chinese painting. Owning to his unique and abundant expression and utilization of brush and ink, he experienced the great transformation from " Bai Binhong " to "Hei Binhong", his paintings had an unique integrated characteristics of visual and inner beauty. Meanwhile he also upgraded the brush and ink techniques of Chinese painting to the level national art spirit, which made brush and ink be more deep national spiritual connotation than surface artistry and technique, which formed strong and moist "inner beauty" whole features.Compared to the wholesale westernized and Chinese and western integrated way to reform Chinese painting.Huang Binhong found a practicable and promising way to transform Chinese painting from classical style to modern style and to integrate into western modern art trend better, which was conformed to evolution of Chinese art rule by itself. Huang Binhong fulfilled his aesthetic ideal which is the integration of true nature, brush and ink spirit and strong and moist artistic style that epitomized his pursuit of "inner beauty". He reckoned that Chinese painting is capable of utilizing and exceeding unique technique of expression of brush and ink and outside formation of expression and reaching to the aesthetic realm of a vivacious and natural inner beauty, which promote Chinese painting to communicate with and keep pace with Western painting. Under the promotion of such art activity and idea, Huang Binhong’s art aesthetic idea centered on inner beauty was cast gradually. The inner beauty idea that was advocated by Huang Binhong embodied the greatest contribution to modern Chinese art aesthetic idea and provided useful and cherished inheritance to further improvement of modern Chinese art aesthetic. According to today’s Chinese painting circle, it’s the most important task that explore the origin of Chinese culture, excavate the connotation of traditional context and promote the inner spirit of Chinese painting. Therefore, it’s necessary and urgent thing that explore and utilize the cherished legacy and transform it to the creative power of modern art circle and to the power of constructing the modern formation of Chinese art and its theory. |