On The Relationship Between The Four Gentlemen And The Character Of Painting

Flower and-bird painting material is numerous, among them with the plum,orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum is on behalf of the literati, character, called the four gentlemen. Plum in cold and in deep valleys, bamboo be noble-hearted wind,chrysanthemum in the autumn resists the frost, can these flowers and plants is the nature of the special corresponding advocated by scholars and moral character, is like a "gentleman", is regarded as a symbol of a gentleman, get the four of ancient writers, painters.Ancient Chinese literati for natural vegetation, insects, fish, birds and animals has a special hobby, literary works, the ancient 《The book of songs》,《 The Songs of Chu 》 is to use flowers and trees, birds and animals as a metaphor, analogy foil. Literature of the gentle, Fu, ratio, Xing the method makes literati in the eyes of flowers and trees to birds with rich cultural meaning,reflected in the literati paintings of flowers and birds in the most obvious. The flower and bird paintings for literati liking symbolism, from the earliest China literary tradition. In《the book of songs》 of flowers and trees to birds than, Xing techniques enable straightforward meaning revealed, and symbolic meaning of《The Songs of Chu》 more vaguely windingly, the "vanilla" to the man of letters has charm more attraction. To the performance of the gentleman of the wind, praise the gentleman of the "four gentlemen" as a typical representative of the flower and bird painting.Looking at the development of the four gentlemen, the art style of each era is different, because the art works of any era reflect the social life and aesthetic taste of the times. Put the work into the era of the background of the specific analysis, the reality of a gentleman’s painting represents the different times of quality, highlighting the different times of personality quality. Four gentleman’s schema is the precipitation of national culture, and integrity noble cultural symbol. "Than the" four gentlemen influenced with other subjects, namely, pay attention to the expression of poetic, and reveal the noble personality. Flower and-bird painting innovation will be on the basis of respect for tradition,abandoned traditional innovation is the root of wood, the source of this.