"vision And Huapu Painting Aesthetics Of Study

Xuan He HuaPu which is wrote in XuanHe Period is the earliest book about drawing. This book, which is rich and complete in its contents, attracted the attentions from Zhao Ji, an emperor in Song Dynasty. Nowadays, the aesthetic ideas proposed in the book have not attracted much concerns. Some people have not found its significance and the profound and complicated aesthetic ideas and even devalued it. However, the writer of the thesis makes sense of its aesthetic meanings and draws the values from readings.The aesthetic meaning in the book is the new point for the study, and the understandings on it are of diversity. The thesis summarizes and enrich the aesthetic ideas in painting through analyzing the book. The aesthetic ideas in the book will be expounded from such aspects as characters and paintings, the delineation of body and the expression of mind, the objective description of environment and the flow of spontaneous feelings, in heritage and innovation, the talents and efforts, literature and paintings, calligraphy and paintings. Xuan He Huapu makes further requirement on the expression of mind. Moreover, many detailed and profound views are put forward in the book, for example, what should be done in the paintings and creation. The demand of the role that the subjective mind plays in painting is also suggested in the book, such as the demand on the writers'virtues, gifts and their diligence. The further discussion is focused on the techniques of painting, such as the skills in using pen and ink,the arrangement of the seats . As for the inheritances, the book emphasizes the in heritage and innovation.There are still a lot to discuss about the aesthetic ideas in Xuan He Huapu after rough exploration. The biographies of the writers listed in the book were copied from other books, so there are several mistakes. However, the aesthetic ideas conveyed in it are still influential.