The Artistic Traits And The Origin Of The Cultural Background Of The Lingnan School Of Chinese Painting

Lingnan branch of Chinese painting has been a colorful flower rooted in certain cultural and historical soil. As a powerful branch in modern and pre-modern Chinese painting, it so greatly influenced the development of modern and pre-modern Chinese painting that no one can ignore its merit. It develops closely with the tide of the social and political and cultural evolution toward china's modernization. Due to the great complexity, arduousness and intensity of the evolution course, this painting branch has been developing while always being severely criticized or controverted. With the advent of the new century, a conflict concerning tradition and modernization begin to make the branch's new history. The essential of the conflict is similar to that of the argument among the conservative and the progressive right after the branch had been born. Analyzing the branch's artistic traits and reviewing it under the then cultural background especially the local Lingnan culture will undoubtedly inspire us a lot in exploring the development of Chinese painting in the new century.