| As an expression of ethnic culture,painting has distinct inheritance and characteristics of the times.Chinese painting uses "freehand brushwork" as its thinking of mode and expression and manifestation of mind.Expressing minds with freehand,it resorts to subjective emotion with "idea".Therefore,"Freehand Brushwork Spirit" is the goal of Chinese painting innovation,which is manifested in the inheritance of Chinese painting.The "spirit" of "Freehand Brushwork Spirit" is materialized in that Chinese painting innovation is not merely a rationale,what it interprets is the psychological expression of our ethnic culture and conversion of national spirit.In recent decades,The emerging gap that exists in the inheritance of national culture,the strong intervention of western values and artistic views,and the popularity of western teaching methods in China have led to Many of modern Chinese paintings have demonstrated in them a reduced ontological spiritual value and a changed traditional aesthetic appreciation.And the most serious loss comes from artistic conception,which dilutes the content of culture in Chinese paintings.Using directly the painting values and criteria of the West to interpret the aesthetic context and content of Chinese paintings will cause painters either to overlook the creation of artistic conception which is the central philosophical idea of Chinese paintings,or to deviate their understanding to bias or one-sidedness,thus blur the spiritual expression and value orientation in their paintings.At present,some painters are eager to seek new expression in terms of schema,while others They are more eager to seek new expressions in the schema while ignoring the importance of using the traditional pen and ink for expressing the spirit,which leads to the loss of the traditional freehand brushwork context as well as of the tradition of implicit and meaningful expression that existed for thousands of years.There is also a phenomenon that painters blindly pursue the traditional expression styles,claiming to be using traditional elements and techniques while largely ignoring the traditional essence and its development.Therefore,under such circumstances,it is particularly important to refocus on the freehand brushwork spirit of Chinese painting.Li Zhengzheng’s creation of Chinese painting better reflects the freehand brushwork spirit of Chinese painting.He strikes a proper balance between tradition and modernity and between Chinese and Western cultures.An in-depth analysis of the freehand brushwork spirit in his works is of certain practical significance and reference value for the creation and development of current Chinese painting.This paper takes the main arguments in ancient painting theory about the freehand brushwork spirit of Chinese painting as the framework to examine the freehand brushwork spirit in Li’s traditional Chinese painting creation.Focusing on the connotation of traditional freehand brushwork spirit,this paper refers to relevant literature and Li’s works,using various research methods such as literature review,analysis,comparative study,interviews of painters,etc.Through the analysis of the freehand brushwork spirit in Li’s traditional Chinese painting creation,the paper achieves a rational analysis of the freehand brushwork spirit of traditional Chinese painting.First of all,it explains the meaning,formation,and development of freehand brushwork spirit in Chinese painting,as well as the freehand brushwork spirit in modern painting forms.Then,through the analysis of the characteristics of the pen,ink,color and freehand brushwork in Li’s representative works in various periods,this paper focuses on how his traditional Chinese painting creation interprets and highlights the freehand brushwork spirit.Finally,it expounds on the significance of freehand brushwork spirit for the creation in the context of current Chinese painting.It is concluded that freehand brushwork spirit is not only an important guarantee for the purity of Chinese painting artistic view and art language but also the carrier of the solidarity of China’s national culture and spirit.At the artistic level,it points out the direction of creation for contemporary painters and leaves a broad space for painters to create and think.At the same time,painters should take it as the basis and bring new aesthetic experiences to audiences in the contemporary era,which has an important role and significance in the innovation and development of Chinese painting. |