End Of The Qing And Collectors Peijing Fu Ancient Green Landscape Of The Connoisseur And The Reasons

This thesis focuses on the connoisseurship and collection of blue-green paintings of connoisseur Pei Jingfu, who lived in the period of late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Blue-green landscape painting was one of the main forms of early period of Chinese landscape painting. In Tang and Sung Dynasty, blue-green landscape painting made great achievements. However, ink landscape painting, as one of the important forms of expression of inside sentiment of scholars, gained huge development in Yuan Dynasty. It is Dong Qichang, one of the most import figures in the history of Chinese painting, who advocated the theory of NanBeiZong, which argued that blue-green landscape panting which belonged to BeiZong was not good for scholar painters. Dong Qichang' s theory had greatly affected the produce of landscape painting in late Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. After Dong Qichang ink landscape painting developed greatly. On the contrary, blue-green landscape painting gradually fell into a decline. Why connoisseur Pei Jingfu collected blue-green landscape paintings in the period of late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China? Whether or not the connoisseurship and collection of blue-green landscape paintings influenced painters in that time?The thesis wants to argue that three reasons due to the collection of blue-green landscape paintings of Pei Jingfu. The first was the taste of the connoisseurs of South China. The second, society changed a lot, the splendid color of blue-green landscape painting accommodated people' s curiosity compared to ink landscape painting which was simple and quiet. The third, there are many ancient skills in blue-green landscape paintings. Painters could search new way to develop landscape painting by learning and studying blue-green landscape paintings. Some other connoisseurs, such as Gu Linshi, Wu Hufan also collected and painted blue-green landscape paintings. Painters of Chinese HuaXueYanJiuHui, leaded by Jin Cheng, began to learn the style of BeiZong landscape paintings and study blue-green landscape painting. The connoisseurship and collection of blue-green landscape painting was important to painters who dedicated to develop landscape painting.