Pan Tianshou, Guo Taste Lotus Flowers And Landscapes Combine Creative Research

Flower-bird combined landscape schema has appeared since the Tang Dynasty,and it reached its peak in the period of Five-dynasties and Two-song dynasty in theChinese history. A number of painters are fond of this schema in that it shows thenatural living conditions of birds and flowers with poetic scenes. Therefore,masterpieces created by utilizing this scheme are found throughout the history ofChinese painting. Under the influence of western culture and the New CultureMovement in China after the20thcentury, the development of traditional Chinesepainting has been undergoing a series of reforms. Particularly, many experts onChinese painting devoted to those reforms after1949. Regarding the innovation ofChinese painting, it is important to explore how to popularize this schema among thecommon public in the era when the development of socialism in China has beentaking on a new outlook.Among these famous painters, Tianshou Fan and Weiqu Duo are therepresentatives of Chinese painting reformers. Instead of drawing mainly prestigioustypes of flowers and birds, they started to incorporate unknown wild flowers and birdsinto this mainstream paining schema, which has created a new way of painting that isdifferent from the traditional way. As for subject selection, they expanded the field asthey broke the limit of subject selection within the field. Additionally, they paidattention to the common subject, which is more likely to conform to Modernism interms of schema and color. Based on a chronicle review of the history of flower-birdcombined landscape schema, this thesis analyzes the innovation created by TianshouFan and Weiqu Duo. In particular, it mainly explores the characteristics of these twopainters’ paintings from the perspectives of schema using, subject selection, ink using,and artistic spirit. It further investigates their similarities and values in the history ofChinese painting. In conclusion, this thesis demonstrates the epochal innovation of theflower-bird combined landscape schema in the development of Chinese painting inthe20thcentury.