Solitary Monk

WuBin lived Ming dynasty of Wan Li years, he became a imperial court for his painting.WuBin's paintings include:Buddhism figure painting, landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting ,genre painting and so on. Buddhism figure painting is the most wonderful as well as landscape painting among them.Wu Bin is a Buddhist, he melt with self understanding of Buddhism to his paintings.Wu Bin's Buddhim figure painting has three styles ,the water and ink, the line depict and the colour ,and Wu Bin's style accepts Guan Xiu, Li Gong lin's effect .Wu Bin' work also has three marks on the function: Serve the work in Buddhism ceremony, help Lay Buddhist Practicing Buddhism and help the Buddhist with the knowing of the Buddhist Scriptures.Wu Bin's paintings gives first place to showing Arhat. The image is absurd, even the clothes and the environment melt for an integral whole,He also common customs-rization with the arhat behavior,man of letters-rization, and made a new explanation of the arhat image. In Wu Bin's early years, his landscape painting accepts the effect of Wu School drawing, The pictures are warm and moist gentle, Have displayed "the absurd, mutant" characteristic ,then after middle age, drawing style creates a separate school, the characteristic is distinct. In Wu Bin's old age, his thought is especially fanciful, Taoism, Buddhism thought exist side by side. Be reflected in landscape painting it is Wu Bin like to show the monstrous model overseas immortal mountain, and the word that exists in his paintingis not belong to human. "Dissociation, hyperbole" showing out in Wu Bin's work are also the effect accepting that time peculiar society background. In the figure pictures, not only Wu Bin, but also Chen Hong shou, Cui Zi Zhong all characteristic having this aspect, in late Ming Dynast. Wu Bin's paintings don't drop into" copy the acient". Wu Bin should have the brilliant historical role on art history.