An Analysis Of Lin Fengmian Artistic Thoughts

The collision and fusion of Chinese and Western art is the most salient feature of the transformation of Chinese painting art in the 20 th century.During his long artistic career,Lin Fengmian has been exploring art by perseverance.He is knowledgeable,integrating the penetration of Chinese and western,independently created a lyrical painting style that is full of the atmosphere of the times and national characteristics,meanwhile it’s highly personalized.It can be said that he has been actively undergoing art transformation throughout his life.He absorbed the essence of western art,and then rooted in traditional Chinese folk art,finally he has learned vivid and fluent forms of brush and ink from porcelain patterns.The art works he created are fresh in style,full of fun and profound artistic conception,which fully reflects the unique beauty of Chinese art.It not only brings people rich visual enjoyment of beauty,but also forms his own distinct artistic style.Lin Fengmian puts forward the theory of "introducing Western art,organizing Chinese art,reconciling Chinese and Western art and creating art of the times",aiming at opening up a new way to integrate Chinese and Western art.The artistic thought of Lin Fengmian is mainly reflected in two aspects,his theoretical proposition and artistic practice.Firstly,Lin Fengmian redefines the essence of art.He believes that art narrates emotions and is the product of human emotion expression and image expression.He advocates that artists should be based on nature when performing art creation,observe carefully and appreciate the original natural beauty,and then absorb sincere and warm emotions from it.Meanwhile,he pays more attention to the shaping of images and the expressive power of lines.He advocates that artists should make a good foundation for modeling at first,and then artistically exaggerate and deform,so that there would be a lively and dynamic art work created with both form and spirit.Lin Fengmian believes that the reason why good art works can touch people and resonate with most people is because it has a "touching power".It requires that artists should have basic qualities,such as a sincere attitude,sincerity of thought,warm and deep sympathy and a strong and determined will,as well as the creative heart of art for life.In Lin Fengmian’s view,the most essential characteristics of art is the expression of emotions,the modeling of thoughts and the power to move people.Secondly,"harmony of Chinese and Western art" can be said to be the core content of Lin Fengmian’s artistic thought and artistic practice.He refers to the communication,penetration and blending of Chinese and Western art as "harmony",and advocates the advantages of the two to complement each other,communicate and integrate with each other,prompting to enter a new era jointly both Chinese and Western art and writing a new art chapter.What Lin Fengmian said about "harmony" is actually a kind of "difference in harmony".On the one hand,it takes the advantages of western painting modeling in terms of techniques to make up for the inadequacy of traditional Chinese painting in shaping the objective and true image of nature and characters,as well as the lack of expression methods;On the other hand,in the spirit of art,it is mainly to promote the traditional Chinese national culture.He advocates that Chinese and Western arts should jointly give play to the times and personality of the nation in the exchange and communication,and jointly create new art belonging to this era.In short,Lin Fengmian blended the spiritual core of Chinese traditional culture with his aesthetic pursuit in harmony.Using his refined pen and ink,fluent lines,bright and vivid colors,the Chinese classical aesthetics was vividly reflected "there is an end to the words,but not to their message".His art is not only a bridge between tradition and modernity,but also a bridge between China and the West.It is even a microcosm of the development of Chinese painting art in the 20 th century.