A Research On Jian Jiang’s Mature Landscape Painting Style

The landscape painting style of Jian Jiang is cold, quiet, elegant, and is of inner beauty, which reflects Chinese traditional culture content adequately. It is a performance that an artist emancipates and expects himself consciously, which breaks through the imitation of ancient landscape painting style. The main research object of this article is the landscape painting style feature of Jian Jiang and inner causes. This essay analyze his personal painting language from three aspects, which includes painting methods of particular scenes, composition feature of the works, influences of particular scenes’ organization’s effect on the whole site work’s verve.The style of Jian Jiang’s works is prominent, his brush and ink is concise. He is adept in using "Zhe Dai Cun", bursh and ink with little water. So the painting seems refined. By reviewing Jian Jiang’s landscape essence from modern art context, comprehending his works’modern form, art character and creativity, it is discoverde that the modern art form character of Jian Jiang’s paintings, just is art innovativity, merges period features with his original style schemata and symbolic system.The landscape painting arts of Jian Jiang are reviewed as the classics of Chinese landscape painting, no matter what sizes, brush and ink, conception, or composition. His works merge his realization of life. The mountains in southern part of An Hui Province, especially Huang Shan, is transformed into painter’s spirit, which makes the works indicate a quiet, elegant, concise art style that is full of Huang Shan’s spiritual essence. Jian Jiang establishes the foundation of Xin An Painting Group, he is the head of the group. His art style makes a deep influence on many artists from that period to modern times, such as Dai Benxiao, Cheng Sui, Cheng Zhengkui, Zheng Min, Huang Binhong etc..