Zhang Yanyuan’s New Interpretation Of "Spirit Resonance" And Its Influence On The View Of Body And Spirit Of Figure Painting Of All Posterity

The foothold and breakthrough point of this article is the new interpretationon SPIRIT RESONANCE of Six Principles of artist Zhang Yanyuan of TangDynasty, which was first proposed by Xie He. To illustrate Chinese figurepainting’s evolution process on lifelike aspects, through expound his fully newinterpretation of “Spirit Resonance” and its influence on the view of body andspirit of figure painting of all posterity especially the influence on LifelikeTheory of Shen Zongqian. This process is also the growing-up process of Chinesefigure painting, which is from theory to practice, and from notion to concretemeasure for implementation. The research on the Lifelike of Chinese figurepainting has a long history. Beginning from South Qing Dynasty artist Xie He’svitality of Spirit Resonance, to Tang Dynasty Zhang Yanyuan’s “the way of usingthe brush is the key of Bone Method and vitality of Spirit Resonance” and laterpainting theorist of Ming&Qing Dynasty, there’s already researchs on theLifelike style of Chinese figure painting. They evolve a creation method withpowerful operability for figure painting, and finally put the abstractive conceptionof lifelike into practice. The process showing how to make lifelike style intopractice experiences a very long deepening process, both in theory and practice,so that we could even say, the history of Chinese figure painting is the history ofexploring how to make characters "vivid".Zhang’s new interpretation of “Spirit Resonance” rests not only on thetheoretical level, but also realized by posterity. His thought further emphasizes onthe drawing technic, which play a more decision role, than Xie, He’s SpiritResonance theory. And later on Shen Zongqian’s summarize on its technic helpshis thought become practical. This article will discuss on this to further emphasizethe effect of the new interpretation, which play an important role that affirm oldtraditions and make new beginnings in the explanation of Spirit Resonance.