The Characteristics And Influence Of Dong Qichang's Mountains-and-waters Paintings

Dong Qichang is an important figure in the history of China' s fine art. His painting style and unique art theory have greatly influenced the art of Mountains-and waters Paintings at that time and today. As a great artist addvocating the dominating position of the Nanzong, Dong Qichang' s art theory has summarized and developed China' s ancient aesthetic thoughts and made great contributions to the further development of Chinese ancient literary thoughts.Dong has learned from Dong Yuan and Ju Ran in the Five dynasties, Guo Xi, Mi Fu in the Song dynasty, Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan in the Yuan dynasty, formed his own distinctive semiotics in terms of stroke, form and image, and thus built his unique style features of mountains-and waters paintings. To be specific, in regard to the semiotics of the strokes, it displays the stress on calligraphy, interest and rhyme. As to the semiotics of the form, it features the obvious characteristics of ???.Finally, his paintings shows a plain and innocent image.Dong' s painting style was very influential even at that time and affected today' s paintings a lot. Therefore, he is regarded as the master of the Nanzong by the artists afterwards. Many artists like Bada and Siwang borrowed and developed his artistic style and became famous.The thesis consists of five chapters.The introduction introduces the whole thesis.Chapter One introduces Dong Qichang' s life.Chapter Two studies Dong Qichang' s artistic theories ofmountains-and waters paintings.Chapter Three explores the stylistic characteristics of Dong' s great works.1. The symbol features of the stroke ( brush and ink and its expression form)2. The symbol characteristics of the form (the conformation of the brush and ink, scenery and composition of a picture)3. The symbol features of the image (the spirit)Chapter Four summarizes the characteristics of Dong' s mountains-and- waters style and its strong influence on later times.