Drawing From Nature Expressing Objects Objectively According To Their Original Forms

From the end of The Five Dynasty to the beginning of the beginning of North Song Dynasty is the typical period in landscape painting formation. The North Song Dynasty landscape paintings are considered as the summit of Chinese landscape paintings. The features of North Song Dynasty landscape paintings lie in its complete unity in expressing the nature, and the landscape is the absolute existence with solemn atmosphere for the combination of naturalism and idealism, in terms of a small universe with its own system as some incarnation of Taoism, rather than the landscape at a certain time in a certain place. Landscape painting artists at that time emphasized"Wai shi zao hua,zhong de xin yuan", which means to learn from the nature and therefore to get some inspiration from the nature you see and to incarnate it in your own way. The achievements in this area that was realized completely and recorded by people at that time and have always been recognized by people later on was based on Chinese monochrome skills at middle and late Tang Dynasty. .This article analyzes the reasons for the North Song Dynasty landscape paintings aesthetic ideas in terms of the background factors such as social politics; economy; culture; history and so on during that period of time, and makes some comparison in the influence from other arts on The Five Dynasty and the beginning of North Song Dynasty landscape painting aesthetic ideas, as well as what the artists themselves were trying to seek for. Besides, this article makes deep analysis on the specific incarnation of the aesthetic ideas in paintings which are quite different from the paintings of the following times. By the study, the article also tells us that North Song Dynasty landscape paintings have a very wide influence on the later times, and very meaningful to our modern landscape painting development.We are now at the 21st century, a brand new time for us to develop with the time when Chinese paintings are in the middle of the heritage and development and it is worth thinking about how to"take"and"digest"to make it our"motivation". It is very meaningful for us to study the aesthetic ideas from"Drawing from nature,Expressing objects objectively according to their original forms"of North Song Dynasty and to understand more about the spiritual connotation of North Song Dynasty landscape paintings. Making ways when there is no way is creative and is meaningful.