To Gnosis Painting Spirit Of Shitao

Shi Tao has been a popular person in the history of Chinese painting since 300 hundred years ago and especially in the modern times. He is well qualified for being the everlasting popular person rather than being popular for only once. This is not only because he shocks the readers from the ancient to nowadays by his rich and creative works, but also because the esthetics connotation in his《Hua Yu Lu》attracts thousands of his followers.Works depend on the painter's controlling of the painting. Reasonable combinations may lead to success. Shi emphasizes on'the combining of the brush and ink, which cannot be separated and will give out endless imagination'. That is to say, he is opposed to the concept that the painting is just understood superficially as drawing the outlines vividly. The deep meaning of the painting is just where the essence of a painting lies. And the obtaining of the deep meaning, as far as Shi is concerned, totally depends on how the painters understand life and receive the early education.'Paintings go along with the age.'From the beginning of the modern times, people's self-awareness is awakened, which creates the open-personalized modern paintings. The combination of people and the heaven in the ancient times, the self-awareness in the modern times, and the craziness and the eeriness of nowadays are all the fruits of the age and the results of the painting procedure. The function of the languages of painting lies in the expressing of the different feelings and mentality of the people in different period of time. But the artists of different age have different life environment and objects to express. Therefore, the fact that the paintings go along with the times is natural. The character of the age is the most essential character of the painting language. The history will not cut, vary, or bump into the harmony of the new lay turning up later. Let's take over the unfinished thought of the ancient people and create the vigorous vital force of today.