Hang Zhi Ying And Calenda Painting Art

Calendar Picture originated from a kind of advertising picture drawn by some Chinese employees hired by western enterprises to promote sales. At first it took after the form of Chinese traditional Spring Festival Pictures and with single-age calendar as a supplement. So it was called Calendar Picture. Calendar Picture took young female as its main content. Calendar Picture usually emphasized its recreational characteristics for the masses, and took the fancy of the people in urban, therefore became quite popular during the period of the Republic of China. When Zheng Mantuo first created Calendar Picture in the technique of watercolor painting by brush rubbing, and got well receive in 1914.This technique had been used so massively in Calendar Picture since then. There were many famous artists of Calendar Picture at that time. Hang Zhiying was one of the most famous Calendar Picture painters. His contribution was very remarkable. In 1930, a batch of works by Hang Zhiying with fashionable female as its content marked Calendar Picture had become matured completely in technique and artistic style. Compared with other contemporary Calendar Picture painter, Hang Zhiying promoted the development of this special artistic style. He was appraised highly, In the history of modern art in China, the status of Hang Zhiying is quite special. On the one hand, as a commercial painter, he was not recognized and often belittled by some orthodox artists then, the appraisal about him was not so just. On the other hand, as a member of Calendar Picture painters, Hang Zhiying was often studied with Zhou Muqiao, Zheng Mantuo and other Calendar Picture painters as a whole. Because most researches emphasized particularly on their general analyses, they were not deep enough in the study of his individuality. So the thesis attempted to analyze his concrete works as well as the development of his Calendar Picture. He was regarded as a representative of Calendar Picture painters in the article. The thesis researches on the reason of the form of his artistic style and his artistic characteristics, thus to make proper appraisal on his position in the art history, and open out the origin and development of this unique artistic style ------ the Calendar Picture and its POP Art characteristic.