The Study Of The Neutral Beauty Of The Painting Art Of Emperor Huizong Of The Song Dynasty

The academic painting of flower-and-bird in Song Dynasty conveys people’s pursuit of delicate and harmonious esthetic perception in that period.The meticulous flower-and-bird painting of academy style reached its zenith in the period of Xuanhe.Emperor Huizong of Song,Zhao Ji played a key role in the prosperity of the academic flower-and-bird painting.In the late period of Song Dynasty,Emperor Huizong’s support for the expanding of royal painting academy was vital for the development of Chinese traditional painting.Huizong’s royal painting academy has been unprecedented in history and Huizong himself was also a great master of flower-and-bird painting.In efforts of Zhao and painters of royal academy,the skill of Chinese flower-and-bird painting became more meticulous and vivid and the color became brighter and more luxuriant,developing towards the direction of artistic conception and poetic realm.The painting of Zhao is a typical example of academic painting of flower-and-bird in Song Dynasty.He pursues the beauty of artistic conception in the creation of painting.His works emit the“smell”of literary,connecting the characters of painting and literary and showing a unique painting style.The preciseness and freedom in his paintings perfectly complement each other,containing the principle and perception of“neutralization”in the dialectical thinking of Chinese traditional arts.Zhao Ji’s paintings are neat and orderly,which shows his meticulous attitude in creation and observation of tiny things in life.The mature skill of realistic painting and the layout of standing in the motion make his painting idyllic.Under the influence of the theory of Chinese literati painting,Zhao inserts inherent spirit into the natural characters in his paintings,in which the subjective emotion of human and objective images of nature integrate.The scenes in the paintings can satisfy people’s psychological need of elegance and harmony and reflect Chinese traditional cultural aesthetics and philosophical thoughts in Chinese aesthetic conception.The beauty of neutralization,diverse styles and unique creation conception in Zhao’s flower-and bird paintings make him an artistic paragon for descendants to study.