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The objective of this article is to analysis the art of Kun Can who is a famous painter in the early Qing Dynasty, by investigating the life of Kun Can, his paintings and the philosophy hidden in it. Through comparing and analyzing the linkage of these three factors, this article documents that the formation of a artist's unique painting style is affected by the special time when the artist had been living, the artist's personality and the thought or value the artist had received. Thus, this article discovers a complicated relationship between the art and the culture of a society.This article is mainly including three parts:Firstly, through analyzing the painter's personality and life, this article reveals that his life and his external environment had inducing and restrictive effects on his painting style.Secondly, combining analyzing his painting case, this article discusses that his painting had the inheritance and creation characteristic of tradition, and discusses that he imitated and surpassed the reality.Finally, this article discusses that Kun Can combined the thinking of Zen to paintings and poems; he tried to constitute the spirit of paintings by the thinking of Zen. In addition, it discusses the mutual interaction of the philosophy of religion and art.As described by Dana in "Philosophy of Art", art never exist lonely; it belongs to the spirits, customs and cultures of the time when it generated; it is the result of "the soundless cooperation of thousands of nameless people". This is the guiding ideology of this article.