The Study And Practice Of Color Expression Of Contemporary Landscape Painting

The use of color in Chinese landscape painting has a long-standing history.The rich theories and experiences that the landscape painters has accumulated from long-term practices worth studying.Nowadays,with the diversification of art,particularly with the blending of Chinese and western art,the color performance of landscape painting developed both in theories and practices.The contemporary landscape painters has made bold innovations,and at the same times,they attach great importance to color and increase the use of color in works.On the one hand,the painters widely absorbed and learned from the foreign art,and on the other they drew nourishment from national art culture in order to give a new look of landscape works.The color plays a more important role in Chinese landscape painting.The new landscape works smells of the times not only visually but also emotionally.The progress of the color using in landscape painting comes from the painters’ unceasing practices in creating.Instead of merely concentrating on blue-green coloring and ink rendering,the use of color in landscape painting emphasizes a mixture of texture,water,ink and color,as well as the composition and ornamentation of color and the color’s visual impact.Rich color language is the need of times.All the landscape painters pursued the expression of individual color and emotion.The use of color in landscape painting becomes more subjective.Besides,the symbolic meaning of color expanded further.The expression of color,may be as large as the expression of national spirit and the spiritual pursuit of the vast universe,or as small as the expression of idyllic ideal and local mood.Based on the contemporary landscape painting’s inheritance and development from traditional landscape painting,the study tries to analyze the new performance techniques and aesthetic value-orientation of the color using in landscape painting.To begin with,the study starts from the color theories of traditional landscape painting.The color conception,the technical features and the aesthetic emotion would be discussed one by one.It is the evolution and development of color performance in contemporary landscape painting under the influence of western painting ideas that the study focuses on.The study analyze the diversity of color expression in representative landscape works in different times.It alsosummarize the innovation in material techniques in which the novelty of content and the trend of emotion are included.In addition,combing the typical case study of color,the thesis further explains the trend of the color in landscape painting.Lastly,according to individual color practice,the study explores more possibilities in the innovation of the landscape color.The study of the color in landscape painting is not only the requirement of historical development but also a guide of the color application in contemporary landscape creation.Along with a healthy mind and fact,the study intends to search and analyze the present face of the color of contemporary landscape painting,which would draw more attention from scholars for the color of contemporary landscape painting.