Extracting From The Past And Reflecting On Current Painting Art

Mineral painting as a language of painting gradually develops fast in a distinct way during the last decade. It suits people's art taste in modern society, conforms to the current development trend, and becomes well known in the whole world. However, remarkably, mineral painting as a very new form of painting in current art field has a tradition over two thousand years, which incorporates multi-cultures of Silk Road. To analyze and discuss deeply on the tradition of mineral painting will be meaningful to the renaissance of mineral painting, which has a value of successive culture and adapts well to current aesthetic concept as well.Silk Road retained a great number of majestic mineral paintings in China, among which the classic mineral paintings of Zhva-lu-dgon-pa temple-monastery in Tibet was considered as one of the most famous artworks. In this study, the author basically initiates this study from the historical background of the classic mineral paintings of Zhva-lu-dgon-pa temple-monastery in Shiagatse district. Then a further discussion will be demonstrated on the artistic style, painting language, skills of expression, and the very special painting material of the mineral painting. Eventually, the author summarizes the successful experience of the classic mineral paintings of Zhva-lu-dgon-pa temple-monastery. Based on the summary, a further analysis on the existence of the traditional painting represented by the classic mineral paintings, the enlightenment of the contemporary mineral painting art development, and the special significance to the contemporary mineral painting art both in Main Land and Taiwan will be presented in this study.