The Essence Of Intellectuals Painting And Its Value For Contemporary Chinese Painting

As a relaxation of the ancient Chinese intellectual in the beginning, Intellectuals Painting that symbolizes the inner world of the Chinese intellectuals gradually developed into the cream of the Chinese Painting with a unique aesthetic style, manifestation mode, and pursuit of artistic conception. In due to the great artistic taste and a variety of highly-educated participators, Intellectuals Painting brings us lots of works and thoughts paying attention to artful personality of painters, harmony between human and nature, poetic painting and expressing qi and spirit. By the investigation of Intellectuals Painting, this paper provides some ideas for the contemporary Chinese painting to strength the traditional connotation.