Research On Fan Zeng's Simple Strokes And Ink-splashing Figure Art

Mr. Fan Zeng's simple strokes and ink-splashing figure art is not only a focus of the modern painting field but also an important aspect which can not be omitted when it comes to modern Chinese painting. For his contribution to restoring and exploring of Chinese simple strokes and ink-splashing figure art, he has become another important representative of this field after Liang Kai. This paper probes into the multifaceted value and significance of his art to. the Chinese painting and Chinese culture from three aspects: ideological foundation, the road to maturity and style features.Mr. Fan Zeng has always attached importance to the important relationship between painting and cultivation of and thinking. In this paper, from philosophical, aesthetic, literary, and other aspects, describes his attainment in Chinese Literature and his gradually formed unique concepts, and, it discusses the key role of these attainments and concepts to his simple strokes and ink-splashing art. In philosophy field, Mr. Fan Zeng mainly adheres to Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi and this paper discusses Mr. Fan Zeng' s art from three aspects advocated by Lao zi and Zhuang Zi: the pursuit of freedom, the adaptation to the nature as well as the relationship between skills and doctrine. In aesthetics field, Mr. Fan Zeng aims at not only the arts but also the future of the entire human world, and the 'reverting to classicality' advocated by him is his own systematic aesthetics idea established from the consideration of the ultimate fate of human society, which is the highest standard of his thinking. In culture field, Mr. Fan Zeng is cultured in many aspects including literature, history and poem. Integrating as a whole, academic research and artistic creation can not be separated from each other in Mr. Fan Zeng's idea, and this is the ideological root of his promotion of literature and bookish flavor in his painting. In short, this part of the paper starts from the effort of Mr. Fan Zeng out of the painting field and deeply analyzes the spiritual connotation of its simple strokes and ink-splashing figure art.For the simple strokes and ink-splashing paintings of Mr. Fan Zeng, this paper discusses deeply from the road to maturity and art style aspects.Mr. Fan Zeng started to commit to simple strokes and ink-splashing art about from the Bingzi Year (1996), and his road of art from fundamental establishment to overall maturity and to the formation of the stype of simple strokes and ink-splashing undoubtedly provides an important basis for us to understand his art. And what is noteworthy is that the shift to simple strokes and ink-splashing is a comprehensive change involved in ideology, poetry, calligraphy, painting and so on, and Bada Shanren( Zhu Da, a famous monk painter in Qing Dynasty) influences him greatly.The distinctive and unique style of Mr. Fan Zeng's simple strokes and ink-splashing art is the focus content of this paper. From the selection of subject matter of the painting which adheres to "reflecting doctrine by the painting, the sculpting style of "simple strokes and complete spirit", the stroke and ink style of "literature as hard core", the artistic conception of "poem as soul", the painting state of "combining spirit and afflatus", this paper uses means of analysis and comparison dissects this style deeply.