The Influence Of Taizhou School On The Drawing Thinking Of Later Ming And Early Qing Dynasties

The art thoughts are sure to have a great change when great achievements in Chinese thoughts history are accomplished. This paper analyzes and investigates the relations between Taizhou School and the art thoughts of later Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Taizhou School belongs to the domain of Chinese thoughts history while the art thoughts of later Ming and early Qing Dynasties belong to the domain of Chinese art history. This paper aims to merge these two domains. Concerning various schools of arts, this paper focus on the school of drawing.It' s certain that a thought, when first coming into being, may not directly influence other phenomena of culture of the same period of time. With time passing by and knowledge spread around, it can penetrate into people' s soul after people' s reproduction and reinterpretation. This is especially true of Yangming philosophy, which effects influence on other phenomena of art while it changes within itself and spreads its influence till the end of Yangming philosophy.This paper concludes four characteristics for the artists in the later Ming and early Qing dynasties: first, advocating self-respect and seeking for the liberation of personality; second, emphasizing "restraining reasons and upgrading feelings" ; third, indulging in the scenery and meditation; fourth, not striving for the uniqueness in their drawing but the strength of their drawing. Comparing the philosophical thinking of such key figures of Taizhou School as Wanggen, Hexinying, Luorufang and Lizhi, this paper finds clearly the identity between the philosophical thinking of Taizhou School and the drawing thinking of the later Ming and early Qing dynasties as well as the influence of the former on the latter.At the mean time, this paper presents extraneous evidence for its topic in terms of the history of communication between thinkers and artists as well as the identity of the activity area of them.