The Zen Aesthetic Orientation Of Chinese Painting And Its Practical Significance

In this article, we take MUXi’s 《LiuShiTu》 for example,through analyzing the creation background the style characteristic 、 the aesthetic orientation of 《LiuShiTu》,in-depth study on the interpretation of zen 、Buddhism and zen aesthetic,as well as the significance of zen aesthetic orientation in modern and contemporary painting.First of all, this paper briefly comb of the current domestic existing theoretical research on the concept of zen and the origin of zen, by the occurrence and development of zen aesthetics leads to the relationship between Chinese painting with zen aesthetics. Zen comes from India Buddhism, combined with Chinese Confucianism and Taoist thought, developed into a kind of Chinese philosophy of spiritual phenomenon, which is pursuing individual consciousness. Zen aesthetics pushs the people’s inner life forward to the height of the ontology, and raises the real life and the heart to the height of the ontology of beauty.Secondly, the southern Song dynasty under the political situation of the internal disorder and foreign invasion, still decayed weak, and cannot be more paralysis. Along with the team in exile, MuXi came to Hangzhou, with a cavity blood nowhere to flow,and outstanding talent, nowhere to display,so desperate that choosed to become a monk to study zen method. At that time all sects of Buddhism are in a trend of decline, except zen, which based on Literati’s support, get new power and blood, and showed the exuberant trend.Zen painting style has been influenced by Court body painting, full of literati feelings, also contains MuXi’s understanding of the zen, laid a solid foundation for the production of 《LiuShiTu》.As a kind of unique aesthetic form,Although《LiuShiTu》Was always criticized by scholar-bureaucrat as vulgar and evil, it is still unable to resist the unique aesthetic experience as zen painting. Not only did it caused quite a stir to Japan’s art world, but also caused a sensation in Europe and the United States. The whole process of drawing of zen type painting is also a process of a zen meditation enlightenment. The aesthetic experience for completed works of zen painting is really a different realize. HuiNeng’s emphasis on the religious practices should be individualized,“ Emphasis on individual self-taught,without any rules to limit”, which points out the importance of the individual. The thought is of great significance to zen aesthetics, which guides the personalized artistic creation in art making and aesthetic appreciation of the individual. A series of aesthetic issues in the development and innovation of art.Thirdly, with the progress of era and the development of science, everything has become an objective specific and no longer has the sacred anymore. It needs a kind of quiet and pure beauty to clean up the world in those noise impetuous atmosphere, and save the lost soul. Chinese zen thought shows us a broad freedom personality world. Zen painting art is a kind of artistic philosophy of life, what it quests is the harmony of the life and the whole nature. In this kind of conjunction beyond the opposition between finite and infinite and all other divisions, grasping the self-value and significance of the survival, grasping the moment of super-space eternal beauty. Consequently, the research of this subject aims to study MuXi and the formation and development of the 《 LiuShiTu 》,and Learn experiences and lessons from it, which will help to the reference and use of modern and contemporary Chinese art.