Research On Yan Wencheng’s Watercolor Art

Yan Wenliang is a famous painter,art educator and theorist in modern China.He published “perspective of art”,“trivia of color”,“Yan Wenliang’s painting album” and so on.This paper mainly studies and analyzes Yan Wenliang’s early watercolor paintings from 1912 to 1928,and probes into subject matters,characteristics of his watercolor paintings,and his efforts and contributions to the history of Chinese watercolor paintings.The first chapter interprets the background of Yan Wenliang’s watercolor painting from the perspective of his living time,and comprehensively combs the year,size,inscriptions,sealing style and collection location of his watercolor paintings,which paves the way for the following.The second chapter mainly discusses subject matters of Yan Wenliang’s watercolor paintings,explores the process of his skill from immature to mature from the perspective of persons,landscapes and interior space.The third chapter focuses on the artistic characteristics of Yan Wenliang’s watercolor painting,which shows that his works pursue the beauty of expression on the basis of depicting the real scenery,with delicate and realistic style.As Yan Wenliang is good at speculating the light on various objects,he has made scientific research on the application of harmonious colors in the painting,and has grasped the perfect combination of Western watercolor painting and Oriental connotation in a balanced way.The fourth chapter concludes Yan Wenliang’s contribution to the development of modern Chinese watercolor painting.He is not only a practitioner,but also an importer and disseminator.