A Detail Exploration On The Artistic Style Of Yun Shouping’s Mo-gu Flowers-and-birds Painting

Yun Shouping(1633-1690),whose real name is Square and character is Shouping.Later,he used the character line and changed it to Uncle,also know as Nantian,but also Hengshan Firewood,Dongyuan Guest,Dong Yi,East Garden Grass Clothes,Yunxi History,Dispersed Ou Xiang,the Southern State of the Rest of the People.He was from Wujin,Changzhou,Jiangsu.Yun Shouping was a painter and theorist with outstanding achievements in the history of painting in the early Qing Dynasty.He was one of the six masters in the early Qing Dynasty,and he was called "fourth king Wu Yun" together with Wang Yuanqi,Wang Shimin,Wang Jian,Wang Hui and Wu Li.He was not only good at painting flowers and landscapes,but also good at poetry,books and paintings,the world praised him as one of the "three Nantian peerless".Guochaobie Cai Collection is stated that,Nantian paints landscape and was good at flowers,compared to the immortal people.Poetry is also beyond the ease,and he is best among the six ease." His " color dyed water halo" method was widely adopted,taking Xu Chongsi’s mo-gu method of Northern Song Dynasty as the key,and absorbing the advantages of the neat style painting of the Yuan Dynasty and the elegant painting of the Yuan Dynasty’s flower-and-ink flowers and birds.It formed the unique Yun school "mo-gu flowers-and-birds painting method" and created "Changzhou painting school".His painting "does not use the ink hook,but the renders vivid while being thick light shallow deep,wonderful extremely natural."With the clear and elegant pen,although the color is mellow but it is both thick and light suitable,the whole style is bright,elegant and clean.He pursued a "off the path with the new interest" painting idea,which gave Yun Shuping’s mo-gu flowers-and-birds rich subject matter and bright composition.It has a unique style in terms of pen and color,which makes his painting of mo-gu flowers-and-birds present a unique style of vivid image,beautiful and elegant,quiet and elegant."it is really new and refreshing.".Yun Shouping’s mo-gu works opened up a new way of painting and made great contributions to the innovation and development of flower-and-bird paintings of later generations and have a profound impact.This paper focuses on the artistic style of Yun Shuping’s mo-gu flowers-and-birds painting,referring to the existing works in China,and combining with the author’s practical experience of the creation of flowers-and-birds paintings.It traces back to the background of Yun Shouping’s life and times,and explores the reasons for the formation of his mo-gu flowers-and-birds painting.This paper analyzes Yun Shouping’s artistic style of flowers-and-birds painting from three aspects of using pen,setting color and transmitting rhyme.Clear and strong,independent and unruly,water-coloured,fresh,elegant,beautiful.Then it analyzes Yun Shuping’s"meaning beyond the pen",that is,the artistic character of painting,which is discussed from the aspects of style,painting and living conditions.It then analyzes the "beyondmeaning" of Yun Shouping,s flowers-and-birds painting,which is the artistic character of painting.Finally,it expounds the influence of Yun Shouping’ s artistic style on later generations and the practical enlightenment to the author’s own creation.The significance of exploring Nantian’ s flowers-and-birds painting works and theoretical thoughts lies in the development,innovation and correct traditional inheritance of flowers-and-birds painting at the present stage.It also tells us to keep pace with the times,to continuously improve our artistic accomplishment level,and to blend in with each other so that mo-gu flowers-and-birds painting development and innovation will be promoted.