On The Re - Evaluation Of "professional Painter" By Gao

Since the early20th century, with Western art historians to study Chinese painting and history painting deepening "professional masters" study the history of Chinese painting as an important artist type, but also constantly understanding and evaluation, which can be divided into appreciation, criticism and re-understanding, as an American art historian, James Cahill on to "professional masters" understanding and evaluation of issues, but also by the impact of Western art history scholars in different periods of study, and his maturity on the issue discussed mainly formed in the1970s, I believe that James Cahill mainly from two aspects to be discussed, one from art history,"the relevant" starting to identify their main form and style analysis and research-based materials methodology, techniques to understand the impact of changes in artistic style, to explore Chinese painting in the "realism" on the brilliant achievements, and that the Chinese "professional masters" At this point, contributed, in an attempt to eliminate the traditional understanding of China on the "professional masters’The negative evaluation; second is from the" patron of the arts "point of view, from the perspective of the relationship between art and society to study paintings reveal literati painters in the art of painting in the sponsorship of factors to disprove literati painters of the" professional masters " There is a traditional evaluation of misunderstanding and prejudice, need to be corrected, based on these two points, the highest in the history of John completed the painting in China "professional masters" Rethinking and re-evaluation, showing the history of Chinese painting differs from a study new methods and new ideas.