A Narrative Study Of Wen Zhengming's Hand Scroll Paintings

In the mid-Ming Dynasty,people are numerous and products are plentiful,the trend of humanism was surging.Under this background,painting schools emerged one after another,among which the Wumen School of Painting was the most influential.Wen Zhengming was a master of poetry,calligraphy and painting of the Wumen School of Painting,as well as the most representative literati painter in the Ming Dynasty.Wen Zhengming was born in an official family,together with their own art and life are admired by people,with a broad social network.Wen Zhengming has a considerable part of the painting is made in this social network for human interaction,which hand scroll is his common painting form.In order to facilitate the teachers and friends of the same good between singing and writing,appreciation and collection,hand-scroll shape with its unique way of exhibition has the characteristics of portability and narrative characteristics,by the literary painters represented by Wen Zhengming's favor.The Ming Dynasty literati painting developed new features of this ancient form of painting and calligraphy.Different from the previous paintings,books and paintings were combined into volumes to form a new form of hand-scroll.The form of inscription and postscript singing and mutual painting and theme cooperation between literati has gradually emerged.He used hand-scrolled paintings to describe and express the events,and wrote the real life and yearning for the ideal life in his heart.With the unique exhibition way of hand-scrolled,the events described gradually appeared.Volume before the volume after the first inscription,so that the hand-scroll works calligraphy and calligraphy are prepared.Wen Zhengming created a considerable number of hand-scroll paintings,the creation of these paintings,mostly with its objective and real event shape,or make ourselves happy to write heart or social interaction.These paintings,narrated in hand-scrolls,restore the artistic life of a literati painter in the Ming Dynasty,and they are also the epitome of literati painter group under the humanistic trend of thought in the Ming Dynasty.This paper collects and sorts out 83 pieces of Wen Zhengming's painting scroll.Through the narrative background and technique characteristics of the picture,the background of the representative works of the subject matter and the original form of the painting narrative event,it is divided into four parts and seven sections respectively to explain the imitation,elegant collection,different numbers and multiple paintings on the same topic.On the whole,it is divided into four chapters from the aspects of Wen Zhengming's life,the overview of narrative painting and the relationship between time and space and the form of hand-scroll,the classification and characteristics of Wen Zhengming's narrative hand-scroll,and the practical significance of Wen Zhengming's narrative hand-scroll painting.Through the collation of the narrative hand-scroll paintings of Wen Zhengming's various themes,we can clearly see a literati painter who loves life,lives a rich life,has a good educational background,travels mountains and rivers with a truly leisurely attitude,and devours his feelings in painting and calligraphy.Under the influence of the prevailing "humanism trend of thought" at that time,he enjoyed the landscape,amused himself with painting and calligraphy,recorded the state of life with his brush,and placed the ambition of leisurely travel through mountains and rivers.Profound interpretation of the story of the scroll painting of Wen Zhengming,the painted scene is derived from its daily experience,thoughts and what you see and hear,so also let the life of painting and calligraphy express feelings of leisure and colorful.