The Creation And Development Of Chinese Landscape Painting Esthetics

Landscape painting is the peculiar form which is only possessed in china. The source of it is the baseness and feeling of mountains and waters our Chinese have the tradition of climbing and boating. Since the ancient time, experiencing the wideness and subtleness of "tao" when gazing far into the distance. Landscape poem and landscape painting are the appearance of those feeling in the art. While, these mentality of "vision" make the basis coronation of "beyond images" happening, landscape painting make it an efficient carrier to reflect the mood of art.The mood of art in landscape painting is not the same as those in the poem, it takes the concept of "spirit-resonance life-movement" as its general spiritual principle, with the art skills of picture to make the mind of admired to romance with it, thus to achieve the effort of beyond images". Landscape pointing is in feet bind of "intelligent painting" that "spirit-resonance life-movement" leads to "beyond images".The concept of "spirit-resonance life-movement" evolutes from the protract painting theory. The require of formal likeness is greatly weakened when it is used in the theory of landscape painting. The focus of painting is to express the subjective mind of the painters, which makes it a kind of "intelligent painting". Jin hao's Record of Technique of Drawing places emphasis on both "qi" and "elegant". This achieves two binds of imagination pursues one focuses on "qi" in the paintings of North Song dynasty and the other attaches to "element" in the paintings of the Yuan dynasty.Landscape painting, which is take to as "intelligent painting", uses Chuang Tzu's philosophy and the deep meditation as its philosophic resource. Tao of Laozi' and Chuang Tzu's makes it possible that imaginary appear "beyond imagine" while deep meditation makes images graceful and lasting appeal. The two method make the paintings of the North Song dynasty as "genius pieces" the whole pictures appear the scene of Chaos, the painting of the Yuan dynasty regained, the elegant in the mind be expressed and the purpose of natural and lasting appeal of hyena be appear.Landscape painting is endowed with the function of "learning the Tao", this function is related to the formal factors of landscape painting. This paper believes that the form and the content of landscape painting are the same, it leads admirers to extend their eyesight from the central to the periphery by its unique skill, realizing the entirety of cosmos, this makes the admirers to cleanse their minds and surmount selfness to obtain the spiritual transcend strength. This in the reason why ancient people want to learn the Tao through landscape painting.