Hu She And The Evolution Of Traditional Chinese Painting

During the period of Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the Chinese traditional artists almostly followed the SiWang’s style, that resulted in conservatively traditional Chinese painting lost its vitality and showed a decline of scene. By the"New Culture Movement", Chinese intellectuals began to study Western culture actively, setting off a massive wave of reform. The rise of the literary revolutionary thought,not only worked at the field of literature, but also spread to the fine arts.At the period of "Art Revolution", Kang Youwei, Xu Beihong, Chen Duxiu and Lv Cheng started to discuss and voice their own reform ideas about the traditional Chinese painting. Chen Shizeng and Jin Cheng were the spiritual leaders of Beijing art circles, they advocated "Intensively Studying the Traditional and Widely Absorbing the New", based on the maintenance of traditional painting, to develop the traditional painting.Hu She inherited the artistic thought by Jin Cheng, "Intensively Studying the Traditional and Widely Absorbing the New", and played the main role in developing traditional Chinese painting. One of the main members Chen Shaomei said "First, Copying the ancients and Learning the ancients, after the copying is innovation", aim to the north-south together. And Qin Zhongwen devoted his energies to the part inside the traditional Chinese painting, made a new breakthrough in the field of flower and bird painting. Chen Yuandu and Ma Jin were representatives at the Chinese and Western painting mixture. By the Chen Yuandu, the "traditional Chinese painting of beauty" began to become "Blessed Virgin Mary", he expand the study of Chinese Localization. Ma Jin imitated Giuseppe Castiglione, advanced the practice of realistic techniques. Hu Peiheng painting "with ancient methods to sketch, from sketch to creation ", above this,the main part of traditional Chinese painting, he drew excellent techniques in Western painting to create, committed to the experiment of creating green landscape style.Hu She’s members inherited Jin Cheng’s artistic ideas, started at different ideological dimension of art and took practical action to reflect the Hu She’s purpose of art:"Following the request of current events, Seeking for the promotion of Art", at the traditional Chinese painting’s modern transformation,they had made their best effort.