An Analysis And Comparison Of Artistic Personality Psychology Between Cheng Hongshou And Rembrandt

Through doing textual research into two famous painters Cheng Hongshou and Rembrandt' s lives and related art career, admits their outstanding achievements in art field, especially their important role in the transmission of urban culture梡rint creation. In China of the late 16th century where bourgeois bud appeared, Cheng Hongshou paid special heed to rural art, which contains the feeling of concerning nation and the people, sings highly for anti-feudal figures in the Outlaws of the Marsh and Xi Xiang, and leaves the immortal fame in the history of art, while Holland in this age had accomplished the 1st bourgeois revolution, like Cheng Hongshou and Rembrandt' s works not only serve the upper-class society, but as a painter nourished by the thought of the people' s liberation, his paintings display his concern about common people and his protest against the reality around. Rembrandt is a great pioneer of copperplate etching, and his works have been placed on the list of the world' s most splendid print.Focusing on the personality characteristics and psychological connotation, begins with the artistic view of them two, and from their own cultural location, infers the differences between artistic connotations and personality characteristics. The research of this aspect is carried out from the following points: one is what influence the different cultural historical backgrounds have on their personality. Deeply rooting in the soil of Chinese traditional culture, Cheng Hongshou represents the typical contradiction of a Chinese intellectual and painter, i.e. although he has extraordinary talents in painting, he is reluctant to give up the ambition for an official position. His rebel originates from the contradiction between his own cultural location and social location. The significance of cultural attainment to an ancient westernpainter is different from that to an ancient Chinese official painter. Rembrandt never shows his dissatisfaction with his painter position. His attitude toward reality is more serious and more responsible, and examining all his life, it is found out that the direction of his rebel is explicit, namely, his real cultural experience, or specifically, his rough life experience and the complex world as well as cold corrupted political reality. Therefore, in some sense, Rembrandt has a kind of active critical personality characteristics; the second point is that different personality characteristics and psychological connotations result in the obvious differences in artistic qualities. This part mainly discusses their clear distinctive artistic traits respectively; the third point, relating their historical cultural background and having them be examined as people.in particular history, seeks the differences between their rebels; the fourth point points out, compared with Cheng Hongshou, Rembrandt' s rebel has more reasons from characters. Cheng Hongshou' s rebel is the rebel of a painter, i. e. the freedom of art creation gained through romantic forms, styles and exaggerated creative ways, whereas what Rembrandt' s rebel has gained is even purer, direct freedom of aesthetic ideal. The rest two points seeks appropriate reasons for artistic personality and psychology, and distinguishes romantic quality from romantic creative methods.As the history is going on, rebel to two artists, as a matter of fact, has reasonability of cultural choice, and even, this kind of rebel can be regarded as a kind of reasonable criticism and self-criticism of history.