Color Study Bird Ren Bo

From1840to1949, it was a modernization transformation period of Chinesetraditional agriculture and cultures. In this hundred years, Shanghai school of Chinesepainting rose the traditional Chinese realistic painting with freehand brushwork, theepigaphic painting and the combination of Chinese and Western ink coloured paintingtypes, which has made a great deep progress and a new level on freehand brush workof flower and bird paintingAs a former master of pre-Shanghai School of painting, Ren Bonian was thetipical person on the modern transformation of the bird and flower painting. He kepton literati painting style which was known for the color creation, and absorbed thenew color elements in modern types. By combining the color of the Ming and Qingliterati paintings, folk art colors in traditional Chinese paintings and the modern colorelements in Western paintings, he achieved a multiple mixture of various art elements,which reflected his humanistic concern and the spirit of the age, and was established anew color mode in modern bird and flower paintings. This new color mode hadinfluenced profoundly, and was formed a fresh and elegant color style in early periodof Shanghai school. Moreover, on Xu Beihong’s effort and support, the academicpainters was affected by the new color repersention type deeply which was innovatedby Ren Bonian. This article disscusses the process of traditional Chinese bird andflower painting reformation by Ren Bonian, analyzes the origion and development ofthe modern color type of it, and examines Ren Bonian’s severl steps on color reformin Chinese painting by facing the changes in modern aesthetic taste, but stillmaintained his artistic quality. As a typical example of color reformation, we can findout the importance of maintaining the value of traditional Chinese painting whileadapt new representions to this more and more commercial and fast-changing world.This article disscusses the reform process of traditional Chinese bird and flowerpainting by the famous artist Ren Bonian with six parts as following:The first chapter analyzes the modern times and technical background of RenBonian’s color reformation of Chinese painting, and it reveals the great influence from foreign urbanization and commercialization culture to Chinese traditional paintingunder the circumstance of Chinese painting modernization transformation.By focusing on the way of Ren Bonian’s color reformation, second chapteranalyses Ren Bonian’s severl steps on color reform in Chinese painting, comprehendsthe relationship with his several teachers and friends, studies his culture background,and concludes that Ren Bonian’s complex of literati paintings is the main core in hiswhole artistic career.The third chapter is about tracing to the origins of Ren Bonian’s color system,which tells the way of Chinese painting modernization transformation by Ren Bonian.As maintaining the central position of literati aesthetic taste, it mixed folk and westernarts elements, which make the new color type appeal to both the more and the lesscultured.Fourth part discusses how did Ren Bonian persisted the aesthetic taste in amutable commercial community, which also provided us an example of color paintingrevolution in this more modernized world.The fifth part analyses the affect on academic Chinese bird and flower paintingsby Ren Bonian’s new color painting style, and researchs the reason why the academicpainters retain the traditional way of color painting is the background of Chineseculture.Last but not least, the chapter reconfirms that Chinese bird and flower painting inmodern society can be a continuous, improvement and perfection of traditionalpainting system. By the way of continous and reformation, Chinese bird and flowercolor represention could establish a new form which adapts the Chinese nationalcondition.