Study On The Calligraphy And Painting At Elites Elegant Assembly During Late Yuan

Through combing series elites Elegant assembly of late Yuan, such as Jade mountain Elegant assembly, the thesis studied the elites'exquisite life and their world as whole by looking for the clue of handwriting and painting of the Yangzi delta during late Yuan. The membership of this period began to be diversified. People such as government officials, business men, monks, craftsmen participated in the salon related to Elegant assembly. This was the reason why ordinary intellectuals became the main part of Elegant assembly.The status of Elegant assembly's participants was so different from the former dynasty. This kind of difference must influence their choices of panting style. As literati painting going on, the Corresponding painting style came into being from form to language. Elegant assembly offered not only the chances for painters to communicate, but gave painters chances to appreciate the ancient's artists works which was rarely to find in civil society. On one hand, Elegant assembly can influence Elegant assembly's participants from many aspects. On the other hand, Elegant assembly's participants can also contribute their own special opinion from the angel of artistic expertise or the origin of painting style. A lot of painters took part in the Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain. Besides them, there were many intellectuals who didn't paint. The Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain was an important way for them to popularize avant-garde artistic idea, artistic orientation and the taste of expertise. It is worthwhile to notice their aesthetic activity in the Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain.The prosperous of the Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain symbolized that the intellectuals after Song and Yuan dynasty were coming into being. Intellectuals became more and more similar. These kinds of atmosphere accelerated the leading position of literati painting. Series handwriting and panting in the Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain made itself became an effective joint point between painters and folk society. Most people who took part in the Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain didn't paint, but as directive audiences, they played an important role during the process of influencing to handwriting and painting style's communication. As main aesthetic appreciator and aesthetic main body, these intellectuals played an role of artistic interest communicator in their own intellectual community. Elegant assembly's activity's diversification made it ownself to be a platform to show various talent of intellectuals. At the same time, painters with different style participated in the Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain, it is helpful to form a kind of atmosphere to influence aesthetic style through the process by creating together or prefacing, postscripting, examining and appreciating mutually. It was an important way for common intellectuals to build their own social guanxi network by writing and replying in poems, handwriting and painting. On the basis of this, it evolved into important composition and social communication of intellectual's life. The Elegant assembly of Jade Mountain developed ways of creating works, such as scrolls of poems and paintings. At the same time, the choice of painting style also evolved some popular norms. And this kind of way influenced latter dynasty's painting style, Especially the Wumen school.