On Lan Ying's Boneless Landscape

MoGu Landscape Painting is an inseparable part of Chinese landscape painting system.The typical artistic appearance of it has gradually formed during the long historical process.MoGu Landscape Painting have no magnificent history like Literati Painting,the attractive artistic achievements is distinctive and unique in the traditional painting which main form of expression is modelling with lines,and attracts worldwide attention by its distinctive beauty.Late Ming Dynasty is the revival and development period of MoGu Landscape Painting,a host of MoGu Landscape Painting artists were appeared in that time,LanYing is one of the distinguished among them.LanYing's MoGu Landscape Paintings are bright-coloured and beautiful,but not vulgar or too much colour.His works are colourful and diversity,but not haphazard,meanwhile,he mixs of the style of professional painters,literati painters and court painters,he put a step forward about the techniques of expressing in colour,he create a distinctive form which in the history of Chinese landscape painting we can't find any record about appear a style such like his,and there was no painting in the same style too before him.Then,this article will be discussed the cause of formation of this special MoGu Landscape Painting style by LanYing.LanYing's MoGu Landscape Painting style affects to the painting circles at that time and later ages,and we should concern and study LanYing's way about "the new to old" and maintaining innovation as a way of inheritance,in inherit and innovate MoGu Landscape Painting.