Mei Qing is one of the representatives of "the Painting School of Yellow Mountain" during the Ming and Qing Dynasty. His art on painting and thoughts on aesthetics take an important place and influence in Chinese history of painting. This thesis firstly introduces the life and thoughts of Mei Qing, and then analyses his art on painting and the subjective and objective reasons which forms her painting style as well as his painting characteristics of men of letters. The next part mainly discusses Mei Qing' s thoughts on aesthetics and his positive and negative significance when his painting is taken into consideration. The last part complements the historical evidence of Mei Qing on his making friends. |