An Analysis Of The Painting Art Market In The Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty was the first unified dynasty established by minorities in the Chinese history,with the unique multicultural background.The devoloping of the Silk Road in Yuan Dynasty provided convenient conditions and channels for the spread of the painting art among different nationalities and promoted the further development of free trade in its art market.The paper makes the overall analysis and investigation from the perspective of the art market,and takes the base on the case of painting transactions of Yuan Dynasty.Under the background of the economic opening,the attitude of Mongolian rulers to the painting art,and the transformation from the mainstream of the art market to the literati painting,the paper presents the cause of formation of the art market in Yuan Dynasty,and restores the pattern of the painting trade as far as possible.It also explored the feature about The freedom of the activity,the autonomy of operating mechanism and the activity of commodity trading in the art market of Yuan Dynasty.The main content of the article is divided into five parts: The first part is to make the statement of the concept of the art market,then make a review from the social,cultural,economic and other fields.the whole process from rudiment to prosperity of the painting market,with the timeline from Wei and Jin dynasties to Song dynasty.Secondly,the background factors of the formation of the art market in Yuan Dynasty were analyzed with the combination of the multicultural and royal attitude.The second part is the emphasis of the article,which carry on the objective restoration to the Yuan Dynasty entire art market movement mechanism and the present situation,taking the law of the currency circulation in the economics as the reference,from the starting points of drawing commodity production,the price,the sale three parts,to focus on the assessment of the price of the Yuan Dynasty's paintings.The third part through the classification of the Yuan Dynastypainting activities and transaction behavior toenumerate its existence of special trading forms,as well as the impact of different forms of trade on the Yuan Dynasty art market;The fourth part deeply excavates the relevant historical materials of Yuan Dynasty painting,and then explains the intrinsic relationship between the working nature of each group of the painters and the composition of the painting art market.The fifth part summarizes the particularity of the painting market in Yuan Dynasty,grasping the main influence on the development of the art market in Ming and Qing dynasties,trying to prove that the Yuan Dynasty played an important role in the transition and prosperity of the art market from Song to Ming and Qing dynasties.