Ren The Bonian Painting Study

Based on the high status and great influence of Ren Bonian in the history of painting, this thesis, by analyzing the Shanghai painting sphere of the late Qing Dynasty and the period of Republic of China, has established the Ren Bonian Painting School which consists of a group of painters influenced by the paintings of Ren Bonian. The existing researches about Ren Bonian are basically concerning and discussing his life experience, his thoughts, the development and the style of his paintings and his art achievement respectively. However, this thesis mainly studies the group of painters influenced by the paintings of Ren Bonian, and does primary research on the principal part of its painters, the style of its paintings, and its art characteristics. By putting forward this new proposition—the Ren Bonian Painting School, this thesis tries to analyzes its chief members, their common characteristics of art and its thriving and decline, then expatiates on a few its own opinions.