Feel And Comprehend The Mountains-and-Warters

Chinese culture always strives for "Heaven and Man combine into one" , and always lays stress on human and nature being in harmony. Their yearn for nature is not only limitied to the thought , but to travel for pleasure. They learn the state through their travelling. They not only run after a harmonious state in thought, but to manifest a feeling or an emotion about the nature through the mountains-and-waters painting. This is the result of "viewing and admirming" . The mountains-and-waters painting is a last of their experience and feeling, and also a result. But the artist par more attention to the course of experience and manifest the feeling through pen and ink after the experience, reflect a natural state more comprehensively and truly. Getting the scene from nature, painting more naturally are both important, but the more important thing is to be genuinely and sincerely. In this way, the painting can betrue, the feeling about nature, mountains, forests, stream can be true. Only the true feeling can be manifested by pen and ink. In fact, every artist can paint after his own feeling, but the feeling may not be genuinely. The pen and ink can express the feeling of ancient artist but not mordern artist. This not means that the mordern artists' skill can not reach the state of ancients' .This is just the result of changements of the times. Any form of art has the problem on innovation and development, and the mountains-and-waters painting also does. The innovation and changes never stopped. The development of art is comprehensive. To develop must to innovate. So, the innovation must be comprehensive. Whatever the form or the content, whatever the idea or the skill require us to seek the break from them.