A Research On The Economic Factor About Creation Of Yangzhou Painting School

In the middle of Qing Dynasty,Chinese painting style was converted by Yangzhou Painting School which was the most prominent painting-style converted group of painters in the Chinese painting history,and which was active from the last years of emperor Kongxi's reign to the last years of emperor Qianlong's reign.During this 70 years or 80 years period,Yangzhou's commodity economy achieved to the top of its development.On the basis of highly developed canal and river ports,Yangzhou's salt commerical industry was so prospered that it became the largest commerical trade metropolis and special economic and administrative center in China.The unique art style and the modernized conversion of artistic creation of Yangzhou Painting School were inalienable connected to the town economy of Yangzhou.The social morality of ‘Doing Business while favoring Confucianism' was populared in the emerging rich merchant's class which the salt merchants was centered.The rich merchants provide enormous economic sponsorship and support to the artistic creation.In other hand,the citizen class of town was emerged in the developed town commodity economy which generated large spirit demand on cultural consumption.Therefore,the economic factor,which was one of the factors of the artistic creation and style innovation of Yangzhou painting school,is very important and worthy of further exploration and investigation.The Yangzhou Painting School,Yangzhou salt merchants,Yangzhou town economy were the research objects in this article.It will take long term cycle research method to analyze and discuss the unique art style change of Yangzhou Painting School and multi-aspect social and economic factors behind the artistic commercialization on the basis of history oral interview combining with history literature and documents research.It will also presents the comprehensive cause of the emergence and thriving of Yangzhou Painting School which have profound influence on later generations,on the dimensions of different economic levels which include the art sponsorship of salt merchants,the interaction or connection between Gentry and Merchants,the formation of painter's recompense,the marketization of artwork.The artists of Yangzhou Painting School will be regarded as a whole subject of social behavior and under the grand history background to deeply explore the modernized conversion of Chinese traditional art.This paper has been divided into 6 parts:In part ?,it is a prelude which introduce the origin,research method and style of this dissertation.In part ?,it states the social and economic status of Yang Zhou Painting School.In part ?,it states the regional business and economy which Yang Zhou Painting School was activated and thrived.In part ?,it analyzes the art sponsorship of salt merchants,the interaction or connection between Gentry and Merchants,the formation of painter's recompense In part ?,it observes the incomes and economic status of the artists of Yang Zhou Painting School and the ways of making a living.In part ?,it states the influence of economy factor upon the artistic creation of Yan Zhou Painting School by analyzing the historical evolution of literati painting.