Research On The Painting History Study Of Ming Dynasty

There are a lot of books on the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty. And there are relatively great transition and development on the painting history concept and method. Through a relatively comprehensive review about the books on the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty, this article is mainly on the coordinating and summarizing about the research status and achievements of the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty, on digging up the whole characteristics, the historiography concept and editing methods of the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty. The aim is to provide reference and consultancy to the development of the Painting history Study, which should have our country's own cultural characteristics and unique merits.Judging from the Painting history Study achievement of different types, mainly inherited the Painting history Study achievement of the former Dynasties on the following aspects: the general history of Painting, the dynastic history of Painting, the local history of Painting and etc. Books on the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty exceeded the former dynasty in works appreciation, collection records and Painting history materials compilation. It enriched and developed large amount of other type Painting history books, such as the Painting history of bibliographic style, compilation style, inscriptive style, journal style and sketch style etc. The number and enrichment of the above-mentioned types of Painting history greatly exceeded the former Dynasty. They represented the major achievements of the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty and directly influenced the development direction and characteristics of the Painting history Study of Qing Dynasty.Judging from the overall characteristics of the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty, its contents diverted from the foregoing painter-centered to painting-work-centered; its motive from paying a tribute to painters to painting works appreciation and collection; its language from euphuistic literature language to image recording and works analyzing language; its style from mainly biographic style to mainly compilation style and inscriptive style which often had the content of paintings and articles together.The above-mentioned characteristics and achievements of the Painting history Study of Ming Dynasty provided us with positive referential significance and reflective worthiness to help us improve and perfect our own country's modern and scientific Art history study, which also has both its own traditional characteristics and present status of modern Art.