Aesthetic Study On The Relation Between Five Colors And Chinese Traditional Painting

The Chinese traditional painting which has the unique style and the rich national characteristic has glorious history, but it has the originality regarding the color cognition and the use. The Chinese think that the color is from the world masculine and feminine elements the metaplasia five colors, namely grows Qing(blue and green), red, yellow, white, black by the black and white two primary colors, following from unreliably, confusing. It has formed the alone Chinese characteristic five colors esthetic system in the influence of the Confucianist, Taoism and the Buddhist thought . The Chinese traditional painting color presents the different time of the color esthetic tendency along with the national esthetic psychology change. With color from solely to brilliant varied, then,will present the fresh elegantly simple tendency in Song Yuan later. In the changes of the traditional painting experience, regardless of the thick ink gorgeous color or the fresh elegantly simple affects in Chinese traditional esthetic psychology to deeply in the changing of the five colors used color language for human's vision pattern. But later period Shui Mo and the pale coloring five colors utilization, its basic principle inherits with the classical five colors system theory completely.From the course of Chinese traditional painting development, we can know that when the Chinese painter carries on the painting in the use gorgeous color and the repel gorgeous color or using black-white water ink drawing, they ever do not rigidly adhere the physical image inherent color which saw in oneself eye, but is emphasized the image the performance physical image, the color has the very strong symbol and the subjective image, regardless of a kind of gorgeous color before Tang Song, or a kind of light color after Song Yuan dynasty, or even the rich color repelling the Ming dynasty later and the black-white water ink vigorously esteeming. In the formula of the Yinyang and five elements , the five colors fundamental element (Qing, red, yellow, white, black) permeates the aspects of the social life and the ideology domain and affects the color standard,as philosophy significance the universe order。Therefore, Chinese traditional painting color esthetic is one kind of image esthetic psychology from its beginning, its color either thick or pale esthetic application, which has always the Chinese philosophy significance color view that intrinsic autonomy its use standard.The idea of Chinese traditional painting color has the profound significance influence in regarding the national spirit,which record the development change course of national esthetic psychology in the traditional nationality cultural history. The comprehensive understanding traditional five colors idea and in the traditional painting the application esthetic psychology can help the Chinese nation to maintains the bright national individuality in the global integration world culture pattern and bring honor to the color culture.It is an essential link greatly to realize the Chinese nation to revive to develop and add color performance language.