Research On Wang Lu’s "Huashan Atlas"

The landscape painting in the early Ming Dynasty experienced two stages of development.The first stage was from Hongwu to the beginning of Yongle,which continued the "freehand" literati painting style at the end of the Yuan Dynasty;the latter stage was from the Yong le Zhong to Zhengde period,which began to revive the Broad,after gradually forming a collarous and water painting of the two Song Dynasties.Formed the strong courtyard landscape painting style of the Ming Dynasty.Wang Lu was not only a painter,but also a theoretician of painting.When he was young,he learned the style of landscape of Ma Yuan and Xia Gui who were from the Southern Song Dynasty,but he painted from life on Huashan Mountain during his old age.He recorded his whole travel in Hushan Mountain by painting,which started the Chinese landscape of memorizing travelling.As a masterpiece,his pictures book painted in Huashan Mountain was a transformation of the style of landscape during the end of Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.He reflected an idea that the meaning was over the form and an idea of painting from life that the painter should follow their heart,the heart should follow the eyes and the eyes should follow the scenery,which was on the basis of the painting style of literati of the freehand brushwork at the end of Yuan Dynasty.In the art book,he brought a good habit that painters should learn from the nature to the landscape in early Ming Dynasty,which played an essential and vital role in Chinese landscape.This paper is mainly divided into four parts.The first part mainly analyzes the causes of Wang Lu’s painting style from three aspects: the way of learning painting,Kunshan painting style and the identity of doctors,and analyzes the problems of the creation of Huashan atlas from two aspects of creation object and creation form;the second part comprehensively analyzes Wang from the four latitudes of composition,point of view,brushwork,and graphic composition,calligraphy and painting.The artistic characteristics of Lv "Huashan Atlas";The third part places Wang Lv’s "Huashan Atlas" in the background of the landscape paintings in the late Yuan and early Ming,from the new changes and changes in Wang Lv’s "Huashan Atlas" in the early Ming Starting from the relationship with the landscape paintings of the early Ming Dynasty,it analyzes the status of Wang Lu’s Huashan Atlas in the early Ming Dynasty landscape paintings.The fourth part is to evaluate the artistic value of Wang Lu’s Huashan Atlas.As an amateur literati painter,Wang Lu was in the painting circle of the "freehand" literati painting style in the late Yuan Dynasty and the "Imitated Ancient" painting style in the early Ming Dynasty.He put forward an incisive painting theory,which played a pivotal role in the history of landscape painting at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty.