Changshuo Cited Book Picturesque

Wu Changshuo, a contemporary artistic master, has made an unprecedented achievement and played a transitional role in China's contemporary arts field. He is a scholar painting giant who combines the poetry, calligraphy, paintings and seals together. His artistic practice of " drawing calligraphy into painting", which resolves the problems of searching for the modern development of traditional Chinese painting from the traditions itself, is still contributing a great significance to today's traditional Chinese paintings.The dissertation focuses on the remarkable importance how the penmanship of Wu Changshuo effects on his painting, according to the "drawing calligraphy into painting" principle. The active direction of the principle is quite definite whether in theory or I practice. To Wu, the calligraphy, the living sources of his penmanship and painting skills, has its unique and practical meaning. Wu's opinion that calligraphy is the base and practice for the freehand brushwork of the scholars' accompanies him for most of his life time. Nobody except him can actively put the calligraphy principle into the practice of paintings and win such great realistic effects. We may say Wu's painting is a castle built on the case of the calligraphy, and its stability and level is connected with the calligraphy.There are a lots of studies on Wu's theory, and the results are impressing. But most of the previous researchers analyze his paintings with regard only to the paintings. And it is the same case to the studies of his calligraphy. There are the researchers who make the researches with the combination of calligraphy and paintings. But most of the researches are shallow and unsystematically, which make it hard to recognize Wu's artistic achievement comprehensively. I think there is a close connection between Wu's paintings and his calligraphy. Not only on the side of skills but also on the side of theory, Wu's painting can be traced back to the pillar—the calligraphy, which is the intrinsic factors nourishing the painting practices.By the studies of Wu's "drawing calligraphy into painting" practice and by the studies of the relationships between his calligraphy and paintings, this paper aims to seek the close connections between Wu's calligraphy and his painting and the functions of the calligraphy in his paintings.