"road" Aesthetic Mapping In Chinese Landscape Painting Now

The concept of Tao is one of the significant categories in the history of China's painting aesthetics, which especially relates deeply with Chinese landscape paintings. Tao could even be regarded as the aesthetic ideal of Chinese landscape paintings. Observing its philosophical and the aesthetic implications, the thesis attempts to explore two major questions: (1) how is Tao reflected in Chinese landscape paintings; and (2) what is Tao embodied in Chinese landscape paintings. The detailed illustration covers five chapters: the philosophical and the aesthetic implications of Tao; Tao and Chinese landscape affection; Tao and the aesthetic idiosyncrasy of Chinese landscape painting; Tao and the aesthetic standards of Chinese landscape painting; and Tao and the representing factors of Chinese landscape paintings. The author develops the arguments respectively in the chapters and makes the efforts to elaborate on the internal connections between the concept of Tao and Chinese landscape paintings.