Adaptation And Communicating

This thesis takes Wu Li, one of the six famous artists in the Qing Dynasty, as the object of study, and put his art in the historical time and social tide of the conjunction of Ming and Qing Dynasties as well as the communication between China and the West to research. The judgment on Wu Li and the significance and value of his works is based on if his works had a direct relationship with his living environment, growing experience, his personal memory and collective memory; and, if such relationship has a corresponding point of the so-called art transformation with the cultural context or ecology at his time, as well as the artist's attitude or standpoint to the reality it reflected. The judgment of this thesis just takes this as the standard. Through analyzing Wu Li's works, including details such as his selection on painting subject, his use of cultural resources, his choice of media and talking methods, this thesis investigates how did he achieve'mastering'the Chinese and Western painting through'integrating'so as constructing his unique painting pattern in such special historical context.Of course, Wu Li's value was not just in his unique painting pattern, but also that his painting practice reflected he, as a social individual, had a sense of actively participating the social reality at his time, which is where the key point of this thesis lies. Besides, this thesis addresses the dynamic communicating process of Wu Li and his work among authors, works and readers in different historical periods in the Receptional Aesthetic point of view, and analyzes the interactive relationships between social historical reasons and personal aesthetics hidden behind this process of reception and being received.