Wenzhao Tong And Its Art History Research

Wen Zhaotong is one of the most famous educators and theorists on art in modern China. In this thesis, the author let readers know all Wen Zhaotong's life and his highly effective research in many aspects on art. The author analyzed Wen Zhaotong`s methodology and idea of the history of Chinese painting, expounded his classification on art bibliography.In the course of the study, Wen Zhaotong used historical data collection to write comments and make chronology for ancient artists. In addition, he also used research methodology of Dialectical Materialism to treat historical and cultural heritage.In China, Wen Zhaotong was the first person to put forward the concept of History Painting. He believed the Chinese history painting included three stages. Because the study of the History of Chinese history had obtained outstanding achievements, Wen Zhaotong considered that we must refer previous research experience to request the artists to improve their qualities. In Criticism of the history of Chinese painting, he put all his ideas into practice.Wen Zhaotong's another important research result is to edit catalogue of art information. In this aspect, he had published many books and achieved wide-ranging implications at home and abroad. The thesis tried to analysis his methods in order to elaborate the idea that both sub-category of cases, academic self-evident.Based on the above, the author wants everybody know Wen Zhaotong comprehensively, including his ideas, his research methods and his great achievements on the theory of Chinese Art. It is very urgent to resume the historical status of Wen Zhaotong.