Regeneracy And Development

The reform and development of the wash character painting is the most outstanding and successful part in the evolution of Chinese painting in the 20th century. This painting pattern which has strongest expressive force and interests in the field of Chinese painting holds the main position which is beyond landscape and flower and bird painting through around one hundred year's development. What kind of developing process has it experienced and what kind of inspiration will it have for the future wash character painting? The analysis and the texture finding of the developing track of the wash character painting in the 20th century looks very necessary and valuable.The reform of the wash character painting in the 20th century originated from the introduction of western realistic painting. Its reform and development has closely connected to the western painting. This thesis analyzes the relationship between brushwork and sculpt, composition and color and finishes the change of the wash character modernization on the aspect of painting and the background of social culture.The relationship between brushwork and sculpt is a masterstroke of wash character painting development in the 20th century. The development is a chronological and complete process under the circumstances of Chinese particular cultural times. There are many representative painters in differenttimes and the analysis of their masterpieces can help grasp the skeleton of the process and objectively understand and evaluate the gain and loss of the development of the wash character painting in the 20th century. The development of the composition is not as chronological as that of sculpt because the composition of the ancient wash character painting belonged to the pattern of landscape and flower and bird painting which hasn't formed independent and united regulation yet. So the borrowing and application of western paintings on composition is much easier. The color of the wash character painting is a neglected and sensitive subject. Some painters have already attempted and achieved a lot but which couldn't illustrate that the wash character painting has succeeded in decoding the color absolutely.The wash character painting should enter an era of more sane, calm, flexible, open and various development after the introduction of the western painting sculpt in the 20th century and the awareness of returning to the traditional writing. The painting practice should be closely connected to the time and attach importance to the appearance of the modern characters so as to look for the original expression means and exploit new expression language and change the traditional painting language text into modern painting language text.