Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting And Brush Stroke:Modern Transition

Undoubtedly traditional Chinese painting pivots around Brush Stroke whereby effects of vivid charm, realm, and position are all achieved. The degree of comprehension in brush stroke is strictly in accordance with capacity and achievement of an artist. Historical speaking, after closely approaching that of Huang Binhong, a mastery of proficient Brush Stroke and its marrow in traditional Chinese painting initiates a trend, in the course of which bewilderment and opportunity arise to be the focus of this thesis.As the presentation of landscape painting, Brush Stroke is characterized with the fundamental and the incidental, and the internal and external, harboring a unique history and cultural norm, which constructs a comparatively organic system after being recognized, mastered and developed by artists in various classical ages.This thesis commences with an analysis the process of formation and development of Brush Stroke in traditional Chinese painting and then reveals its essence, a research directs at restoring its stimuli-presenting mode, offering a background and referent for a modern mode of transition, and consequently attempting to search for innate proofs of its evolution.With a decline of traditional culture and introduction of its western counterpart in the twentieth century, traditional Chinese landscape painting is undergoing severe changes in many facets, such as function, learning method, genre and content, etc. Confronted with problems of representing the new era in specific cultural background, many critics tend to believe in an irrevocable discrepancy between tradition and modernity. Some even observe that traditional Brush Stroke affects or even hinders the modern transition of landscape painting, which is in fact a misconception. Thereupon we must take some basic issues concerning landscape painting into serious and rational consideration. With the development of time, new directions, such as, change, deconstruction and deviation from the Brush Stroke of spirit and so on, are emerging, a process when Brush Stroke is reshaped and facing an opportunity of modern transition, turning out to be the focus of this thesis, which is approached from scrutiny pattern, motif expansion, prolongation of artistic conception and insistence of Brush Stroke in the course of artistic modernity.