Research On Shen Zhou's Flower-and-bird Paintings Style

Shen zhou is a famous painter with prominent achievement in the Flower-and-Bird painting history of Ming dynasty. His wash paintings make the appearance with the form of consciousness, and lead the painting fashion of his era. His made contributions to flower-and-bird paintings both theoretically and practically, and influence many painters aftertime. His painting has the transition meaning of the preceding and the following. His contribution consists of breaking the traditional flower-and-bird painting pattern, broadening the theme range, emphasizing writing and the combination of poem and painting in the language of writing, which completes and perfects the flower-and-bird painting production and its technique, unlocks the new system of literati flower-and-bird painting.This thesis includes the research on Shen Zhou's Flower-and-Bird painting art style by means of researching individual case and combining the preeminence contribution of his paintings. The characteristics of Shen Zhou's Flower-and-Bird painting art style were analyzed and concluded briefly at first, and the breakthrough of his style character was summarized. The deep forming reason of Shen Zhou's Flower-and-Bird painting style was expatiated from three subjective factors, which includes his own human characteristics, painting thought and practical works, and two objective factors, which includes his era background and learning origin. Finally we get the historical meaning of Shen Zhou's flower-and-bird painting art, by analyzing the culture connotation and the influence of which.