On The Decoration Of Ren Bo - Nian 's Works From The Annals

The Chinese painting ‘Congratulate to Xi Wangmu on her birthday’is one of Ren Bonian’s early productions when he came to Shanghai. And it is also the biggest one preserved on the world. ‘Congratulate to Xi Wangmu on her birthday’sums up the artist’s creating thought and art exploration. This painting describing a folk tale involving figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, provides us a good model for Ren Bonian’s painting to study his masterpieces. “Let the paintings be the painting”.Leaving aside the significance of search, From the painting perspective, Chinese paintings, especially the works of Ren Bonian, have more to do with decorative. Ren Bonian’s artworks elaborate “decorative” perfectly. The inspiration of Ren Bonian’s works comes from the real life and they also differ from our life. His artworks transform, beautify, and exaggerate the real life and they also summarize and refine the figures by removing the needless details. Compose the painting with simplified units or by repeating them, this gives the rhythm to the painting. Decorative is the way to decorate the painting with the beauty of the rhythm. All Ren Bonian’s works can reflect the general characters of Chinese painting and show his personality at the same time. Ren Bonian perfectly inherited the tridition of the decorative of Chinese painting. Ren Bonian has two different painting style. One is realistic,and one is decorative. In his decorative works, he shows his outstanding painting skill by compositing pictures, organizing the lines and clouring. When it comes to‘Congratulate to Xi Wangmu on her birthday’, in painting style, Ren Bonian adoped the style of famous Chinese painter Chen Hongshou、Ren Xiong and Ren Xun. The figures look elegant and classical and their clothes and ornaments are exaggerated. The use of line is smooth and gentle. It is rich in directive. He has extraordinary understanding of space especially in the painting ‘Congratulate to Xi Wangmu on her birthday’. There are numerous figures in the painting. It forms more line narration and has a high quality of picture composition. The purpose of this article is to explore the painter’s self expression and his law of creating form a painting or a point.