Yun Shouping’s Art Of Painting

Yun Shouping is one of “the six masters in Qing dynasty”, and he is good at painting landscape and flowers and plants, and he is famous for his Mogu flower paintings.The landscape paintings of Yun Shouping inherited the techniques of people in Yuan dynasty. His paintings are peaceful and spacious, and then he created Mogu technique, which fused the technique in Song dynasty into the style in Yuan dynasty. Hi painting style is fresh and elegant, and pursues for peacefulness in gorgeousness. His paintings simultaneously used ink and color, which forms a delightful contrast and fuses the color into the ink. So his paintings are graceful and elegant, and he is the earliest ancestor of “Wujin school of painting”. Ma Yuanyu, Jiang Tingxi and other painters are influenced by him.His painting theory is also very special. On the issue of tradition and innovation, he advocates to learn from the ancients, learn from others strong points to offset one’s weakness and emphasize the integration of spirit and mind; Meanwhile, he advocates learning from nature and attaching great importance to painting from life, acquiring the creative inspiration from the common scene and directly painting the new thinking; More importantly, he advocates “neither ancient nor today, getting rid of routine”.Taking the painting art of Yun Shouping as the main line and starting from his early learning of landscape painting to the formation of Mogu flower and-bird painting after his middle age, this paper analyzed the art characteristics, historical position and far-reaching influence of landscape paintings and Mogu flower paintings on later generations. Through an in-depth understanding and research on Yun Shouping, we have a profound and clearer understanding of the issue of The traditions and Development innovation.