An Research On How To Develop The Nationality Of Chinese Watercolor Art

A century has passed since watercolor was shipped from West to China. After its existence and development and instantly improvement, it has showed its unique art feature, which is distinguished from the canvas and traditional Chinese painting by its special art language and aesthetic character. It could be said that the achievement of it is amazing through the development in the past century. However, we could not scan the achievement in a satisfied view. Chinese character, shaped by the tradition, is modest, so from the first step of the watercolor on the threshold of China on, Chinese artists treated it in an open-mind and learnt it, but to a great extent, it was to heritage the art feature, without permeating Chinese nationality, leading to the lack Chinese ethos.This paper tries to discuss how to merge Chinese ethos into the watercolor art of China, so as to combine the traditional culture with the western culture and to get rid of imitating the western development, in the view of how to develop nationality of Chinese watercolor.This paper proceeds from the currency and drawback of Chinese watercolor field. It discusses how to learn from Chinese traditional culture in various aspects; illustrates how to absorbing the nourishment of traditional Chinese painting at length. The writer wishes the Chinese watercolor could not only absorb the marrow from abroad,but also combine Chinese marvelous traditional culture perfectly, to develop the noumenal language of watercolor by the clash and mergence between western culture and China's, forming Chinese watercolor art with both solid background of realistic painting and the blood of Chinese traditional culture, showing the unique bewitchery of national art in Chinese watercolor art.