Wang Duo Of The Heart Of The Artistic Thought, The Basis Of Its Practice

This thesis is mainly about the artistic thought of the famous calligraphy artist Wang Duo who lived from late Ming Dynasty to the Early Qing Dynasty. And the thesis is divided into three parts.The first part of the thesis has summarized the difference of intellectual crowd between South and North during late Ming Dynasty at first. Then by describing the close relation between the local sages with Wang Duo, pointing out that Yangming Theory from North was an important source of Wang Duo's thought. Famous successors of Yangming Theory in He-luo area (Luoyang of Henan) such as You Shixi and Meng Huali, had close relation with Wang Duo's ancestors. Yangming Theory was propagating northwards in He-luo area where Wang Duo resided during his nonage, and the lectures by Meng Huali, Lu Weiqi, et al. made great influence then. Wang Duo was influenced by this ideological trend too, and he even regarded Meng Huali as his own spiritual tutor.In this way, Wang Duo was in the pedigree of North Yangming Theory afterward. The thought of Wang Duo mainly came from Confucianism in Yangming Theory, and familiar with the thought of Donglin Party and Liu Zongzhou who had revised Yangming Theory. While in his late years, Wang Duo tended to turn to Taoism.The author expounded the origin of Wang Duo's aesthetics from Yangming Theory of Mind in part two. Wang Duo pursued the aesthetic taste of "vividness", in this point he had extended Yangming Theory of Mind into Aesthetics field from ethics field. Several aspects of his aesthetics should be regarded: Savvy, Zen and Vanity.Wang Duo's aesthetics can be seen in the fields of literature, calligraphy, and painting, etc.. These concrete appearances have been discussed in the third part. In content, he favored strange and weird things; and in form, what he pursued was miracle. All these aesthetic ideals can be seen as the application of "vividness", as well as the visualization of Yangming Theory of Mind in art field.As to the calligraphy, Wang Duo paid attention to the changes of structure and visual effects. Therefore, he emphasized the changes of mounds in painting. Artistic view of the artists group headed by Dong Qichang regarded the technique of calligraphy as most important, contrary to this, Wang Duo's aesthetics took a different view that he attached importance to the visuality of calligraphy and painting. This kind of imaginary faculty of structure and form shows a brand new possibility of calligraphy.