Guo Xi And The New Features Of The Northern Song Landscape

Absrct:It is sure that Wudai and the early Song dynasty see the peak of the development of the Chinese Landscape Painting. There are many famous painters who left the very sunshiny classic works, such as Jing Hao, Guan Tong, Li Cheng, Fan Kuan and so on.. They paint a really true natural landscape in the North, whose paintings have a fresh style and show a trend of majestic and noble aesthetic orientation. The establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty ended the long period of situation of war and separate since the late Tang Dynasty, and then the country have a re-unification. The rulers of the Song implemented a national policy of "strong culture and weak military", and open the civil service exams, developed to establish the civil service system. And specially "Qingli New Politic" and "Xifeng Transform", Song has emerged as a new community in all aspects of meteorology. The people in the new social values and aesthetic orientation have changed a lot and thing behind the changes are in the landscape which has now spread deep scars. Northern Song landscapes of the mid-11th century, the continuation of the painting style since the early Song, its images showing obvious characteristics of the times, which represents the typical Song Dynasty style.For a long time, the most outstanding researchers of the history of art in different landscapes, made a detailed exposition and comparative look at the same time. But Wudai landscapes and the Northern Song style often summed up as a simple majestic style, for the middle of the gap has been overlooked or did not elaborate. In fact, Song landscape style is a continuation of Wudai period, no significant difference in the two. But as the death of Fan Kuan and the birth of Guo Xi and other members, Northern Song landscapes has many new features and distinctive characteristics of the times to the mid-11th century. Of course, times change and the environment are inextricably linked to the Song Dynasty.Firstly in the style of the appearance, the mid-Song Dynasty landscape has changed from the style of majesty performed from the early Song to a coupling toughness and softness landscape which have the emerges of characteristics of the Southern Landscape. Li Cheng refined style into a "unified" pattern which is followed. Secondly, in the picture to create moods, the landscape since the mid-Song Dynasty home more attention to the specific poetic show, "poems and paintings are" of mankind. This has change the kind of broad philosophical implication search trends from the early Song landscape. Thirdly with the Song Dynasty Confucian orthodoxy of the civilian reconstruction and favorable treatment, which increased the psychological center of Scholars Landscape, the mountain hermit spirit of Wudai has been gradually lost and they have very strong feelings of being a member of society and secular trend. And finally, after experiencing the peak of the early Song, which emulated classic literary and artistic works as a model, they are far away from the natural feelings of the landscape since the mid-Song Dynasty showed stylized trend. Behind these changes in the course, the more important since the Song Dynasty is a refined and elegant tastes of the formation, Han's kind of rough, open, calmly traditions are gone, replaced by a fine, compact and elegant. And this change is not merely a traditional landscape changes, but society as a whole aesthetic orientation.Guo Xi (about 1000 -- 1090) was active in the Northern Song as an important artist, who is undisputed by the government and the countryside because of its classic styles. According to Guo Xi and his cross-sectional era, the paper is to explore the typical characteristics of the Northern Song landscapes and their social environment and the relationship between them, and bring them in line with Tang. In contrast to the early Song painting style, in order to show the new features described Song landscape style.