An Analysis Of The Evolution Of Lan Ying Landscape Painting Style

Lan Ying,as the founder of the "Wulin Painting School",has made certain achievements in his Shan shui under the background of "retro" and "personality expression".He formed his own unique style of Shan shui in the process of constantly learning from the ancients,and broke through the stylized constraint of "no bone color",inherited the heavy color painting style since the Tang Dynasty,and developed the green landscape of "bone color".Lan Ying’s unique painting style and the "Wulin Painting School" he founded had a certain impact on painters in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.This paper first classifies Lan Ying’s Shan shui works by chronological classification through the Zhai No.,seal and recognition in the "postscript" of Lan Ying’s Shan shui works,and analyzes the consistency between these factors and the evolution of Lan Ying’s Shan shui style from the information such as Lan Ying’s creation time,place,friends and painting ideas.Secondly,taking Lan Ying’s representative Shan shui as the starting point,this paper analyzes the evolution process of Lan Ying’s Shan shui style from the aspects of painting pattern,artistic expression form,pen and ink interest,etc.on the basis of analyzing the origin of its Shan shui style.To explore how Lan Ying,under the influence of learning from the ancients and "retro" painting,and on the basis of the integration of the "South and North" sects in his later years,changed from his early meticulous,neat,delicate and unsophisticated painting appearance to the lofty,magnificent and vigorous style of Shan shui,as well as the colorful,harmonious and unified,dark green landscape.Finally,the paper expounds the "Wulin Painting School" founded by Lan Ying and the influence of Lan Ying’s Shan shui style on painters in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.