Between The Yellow Mountain And The White Mountain:A Turn Of The Landscape Painting In The Late Ming Dynasty

"Climbing Huangshan Mountain(or called the Yellow Mountain),there is no mountain in the world",the magnificent view of Huangshan Mountain not only attracted Xu Xiake,but also made people from ancient and modern times continue to chant.As far as art history is concerned,Huangshan Mountain paintings is also a fascinating and fascinating subject,as evidenced by the massive amount of previous research.The object of this article is not limited to the vast Huangshan Mountain paintings.What attracts me more is the early formation process of Huangshan Mountain paintings and the turning significance of Huangshan Mountain paintings born in the historical change of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in the history of landscape painting.This will be the first systematic study on the Baiyue Mountain(or called the White Mountain)paintings,and it will also be a supplement to the research on the Huangshan Mountain paintings.The emergence of mountain images first relied on the local tourism industry.In the process of the rise of Huangshan Mountain images,Baiyue Mountain,a neighbor who was famous before Huangshan Mountain,played a powerful role.I try to borrow the achievements of history and sociology,and combine images to verify the close connection between Baiyue and Huangshan Mountain,and then discuss how the images of Baiyue Mountain affects Huangshan Mountain,and how it radiates back to itself after the images of Huangshan Mountain is generalized.One of the images differences between Baiyue and Huangshan Mountain lies in the format of the two paintings.Baiyue has many long scrolls,while Huangshan has many hanging scrolls.Of course,this is related to the characteristics of the mountain itself,and it is also related to the more specific travel methods of painters,the way collectors use them,and the competition between images.What is particularly interesting is the transitional qianhou painting between the two,which is closely related to the Tiger Hill paintings,and thus brings the question back to the starting point of the Baiyue Mountain’s painters.The spatial and technical diversity of the Huangshan Mountain images are more than that of the previous generation of mountain images.This partly benefits from the development of tourist routes,and also benefits from the combination of the wonders of Huangshan Mountain itself and the interest of Cloudy Mountains paintings.From shiju paintings to the landscape paintings,the confirmation of Huangshan’s homeland significance for Huizhou people is largely due to the credit of images;And it is precisely because of the establishment of many images of "home-mountain" that Huangshan Mountain has been able to advance in the history of painting and become the place where hundreds of rivers gather that we see today.In this way,although my research focuses on Baiyue and Huangshan Mountain images,I also hope to help understand the formation process and relationship between other mountain images in art history,and even the shaping of images and identities.The main purpose of my research is to try to use the Baiyue and Huangshan paintings to build a bridge between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the art history,especially of landscape painting,and use mountain images to discuss various issues involving space,shape,vision,and interest in the transformation of landscapes in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.Of course,classic topics such as real scene and manufactured landscape,painter and patron,form and content are inevitably mixed in.The "turn" in the title does not happen rigidly and suddenly.We will see that it has a transition period of about a hundred years,and it also has a unique form of this period.This article presents the three levels of this transformation.I would like to use this "turning" hypothesis to provide an idea and method for art history research,that is,to trace back from the starting point of a certain type of image(rather than backward)development),and connect it with the previous images,and consider the process of development with a node as the center.