Analysis Of “Jiang Xing Chu Xue Tu” Of Zhao Gan

The painting “Jiang Xing Chu Xue Tu” is dated to an earlier era in the history of Chinese painting,and its author has been identified as Zhao Gan,a native of Jiangning in the Southern Tang Dynasty,of whom there is only one other work in circulation.Zhao Gan lived in the early Five Dynasties and Song dynasties,the most prosperous and unique period in the history of landscape painting,when landscape painting began to replace figure painting as the center of painting.And ink landscape painting became the mainstream of the painting world.As a small blue-green scroll with a mixture of figures and landscape,“Jiang Xing Chu Xue Tu” depicts the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River and the scenes of people at work,which implying a departure from the mainstream ink landscapes of the Five Dynasties at the time.The painting has Zhao Gan’s unique painting technique,the rare early look of small blue-green landscapes,and the special treatment of the composition of the hand scroll,giving it a special place in this period of history.From an iconographic perspective,the author will use image comparison and chronological combing to analyze technique by category through the practice of copying the painting scrolls of “Jiang Xing Chu Xue Tu” The painting will be compared with ink landscape paintings of the same period,and then placed in the context of the blue and green landscape of the Tang and Song dynasties to analyze the uniqueness of its technique and its influence on later generations of painting,and then to analyze the inspiration of Zhao Gan’s spirit of intentionality,fusion and inclusiveness for the expression of the spirit of intentionality in the creation of contemporary landscape painting.