Research On Huang Shen's Artistic Achievement

Among the eight maverick geniuses in Yangzhou, the figure paintings of Huang Shen were outstanding. Huang Shen gathered the advantages of various schools of thinkers, dared to break through the old rules to create a new Painting Technique, which started with the cursive scripts. What's more, he got lots of achievements in Chinese traditional landscape paintings, flower-and-bird paintings and figure paintings and so on. He was born on the wrong side of the track, lived on painting and wore cotton clothes all his life. The unified artistic characteristic he had was casted from his life experiences and the spirit of continuous exploration towards paintings. And the achievements he made in art had been giving a profound influence on generations.Compared to other maverick geniuses, the evaluation and attention degree Huang Shen got was not that fair. It had something to do with his lowlife family background and social status. Praiseworthily, Huang Shen, as a professional painter, had held fast to his personal integrity of a literati painter. At the same time, it skirted round the unrealistic part of painting. And it was consciously close to the ways of the world in our life, concerning about the lower people, opening a new page of the aesthetic standard and introjecting the duel roles between a professional painter and a literati painter. There are lots of influencing factors behind the changes of Huang Shen's painting style. This article firstly expounds on Huang Shen's life experiences and the different periods of his artistic style changing, then elaborates on the cause of his artistic style's formation through analyzing the objective and subjective factors, and then makes a further analysis on Huang Shen's impact to Fujian-Taiwan Region, in order to do a fully research and comment on his painting achievements.