The Research On Chen Hongshou's Painting Style

There are lots of painters, who created their own painting miracle and left rich research projects for the after ages in their respective age and stage, but for various reasons, these master painters did not left behind a wealth of biographical information and theory, practice and graphic material, so it is difficult for us to discover and learn the painting style, aesthetic ideas, methods of creation from their real life. To study these painters, we only can insight into the track of their art from the works they left, the document that people collected and arranged. And Chen Hongshou is one of the painters like this, his life is great, troubled, miserable, and he had struggled all his life. He lived in the seventeenth-century, and at that time the dynasties were changing. He grew up in the late Ming painting, and had not complete poetry works of literature and systematic theory of painting. For He is also a person in between professional painter and politician, and his painting subject mostly related to include flowers, birds, figures, landscapes, prints, calligraphy, literature and so on, so there is no specific, extensive, systematic records and specialized research. However, in any time, the painter's creative idea is always related to the times, the environment, literacy, aesthetic standards that he lived. Any artist has made some achievements, there is always the result of its roots, and it has its own source of ideas and concepts, has worship and desire to ideal. The research on Chen Hongshou's painting style is summarizing the specific characteristics of his painting, by concluding his works, and then make an intensive study from the building and formation about his painting style, at last, expressing the influence and inspire that the result for the formation of Chen Hongshou's painting style give the after ages. Thus, the researche on Chen Hongshou not only can let us learn about him extensive and general, show Chen Hongshou's achievement, but also is helpful to learn the artistic thoughts and overall perspective of the field of landscape painting in the late Ming and early Qing.