A Research On Producing Context For Ancient Chinese Snow Landscape Painting

Snow landscape us a special theme in landscape paintings in the four seasons in ancient times; its wildness, chilliness, simplicity, quietness and loneliness endows rich ideological connotation and aesthetic implication; thus, it has been praised highly by scholars and painters. In the thesis, the author tries to comb external relations from times background, words, language, style, schema, aesthetic appreciation to formation of artistic conception of snow landscape paintings and concludes its spiritual value and aesthetic meaning through illustrating snow landscape paintings in successive dynasties combined with theories and writings related to ancient times. Researches on the theme can recognize the whole through observation of the part and from clear cognition towards inner logic and development law of producing context for ancient landscape paintings more profoundly so as to offer references and inspirations to contemporary landscape paintings.The thesis starts from clarifying historical period and background of snow landscape paintings when Gu Kaizhi, Zhang Sengyao and Wang Wei are important arterial painters. Emergence and development of wash paintings in the Tang Dynasty are closed and accordingly related to snow landscape paintings and snowy woods pursuing the artistic conception of wildness and chilliness.Clear vein has been formed in the historical development of producing context of snow landscape paintings and different time’s styles and personal features have been shown in orderly inheritance. The author analyzes cases for representative painting school, painting style and painters, concludes influences of different painting language and schema features upon producing context, emphasizes on illustrating external relations and summarizes changes and features of producing context of snow landscape paintings in different historical periods.The author analyzes that scene and context are true or false and integrated from methods and features of producing context of snow landscape paintings. The mode of thinking integrated with time and space shows awareness of life of Chinese artistic spirit; farther space-time concept is a kind of reappearance of soul and infinite transcendence and bailment of life realm; poetic and picturesque features pose great influences upon content and times form of snow landscape paintings and show subject effects of painters to built context, which are specifically reflected poetic landscapes and paintings of man-of-letters in the Song Dynasty and combination of poetry writings and paintings in style; plots of literature allusions enhance readability of producing context and the central source and relation show the conception of nature of ancient landscape painters observing things by heart.Words for producing context of snow landscape paintings are different other landscape themes, for example, snow method, tree method, hillstone wrinkle method, colour method and sky-water processing method have a unique style through showing wildness, chilliness, quietness and loneliness of snow landscape and form stylized combination mode. Selection of silk and paper pose great influences upon words of snow landscape so as to cause desynchrony between context production style of snow landscape paintings and mainstream paintings of man-of-letters in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.Reading features of producing context of snow landscape paintings from thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and freedom, we can feel that context production is an artistic proposition concentrated on life; Bede, four seasons and the universe are integrated in it. Blankness and simplicity thinking of Lao Zhuang is connected with vacancy, loneliness, illusion and purity of Dhyana, which are the source of forming the aesthetic conception of snow landscape paintings and pursuing its wildness, chilliness and simplicity.