Analysis Of The Painting Art Of Yue Xiangshu

The forming of Mr. Xiangshu Yue’s artistic style is closely related to the ups and downs of Chinese art in20th century. Throughout his entire painting life, he had been multiple utilizing the traditional ink-and-wash drawing and the skill of adapting foreign features for Chinese use, which finally leads to the maturity of his own artistic expression. His life and career of wash-and-ink painting blossom.Yue’s traditional inks-and-wash works mainly focus on flowers-and-birds painting and mountains-and-waters painting. Affected by Shanghai style, he absorbs Wu Changshuo’s impetuous and crude way as well as Ren Bonian’s unrestrained and veiled manner in his painting of flowers-and-birds. In reference to his mountains-and-waters painting, he follows the classic discipline of "modeling after ancients and nature". Among ancients, Shi Tao impresses him most, not only on manners of painting, but also on the application of Shi’s painting theories. Moreover, Mr. Xiangshu Yue travels around Jinan, Tai’an, Linyi, Qingzhou and many other places to explore further the structure of stones and master the patterns of mountains-and-waters drawing.Affected by artistic current affairs, Xiangshu Yue has been cultivated by the western painting ideas at a very young age. His works are featured by adapting foreign features for Chinese use, which is mainly represented by portraitures with carboniunu watercolors and some mountains-and-waters paintings. With the accumulation of lifeexperiencesand improvement of creationskills, the painter has gradually shaped his own mature style at1970s. During this stage, his flowers-and-birds are profusely depicted, which are more thought-provoking. His paintings of mountains-and-waters, with more skill and good taste, are profound and far-reaching in concept.His life with great austerity might be a miniature of the history of Chinese art in20th century. However, Mr, Yue has been ignored and shadowed due to being absent in social mainstream for a long time, and being suppressed in the period of Cultural Revolution, as well as early demise. All of these could hardly deny his position of a pioneer and a forerunner in the field of western painting in Shandong province as well as an elite in traditional Chinese painting. His artistic achievement contributes a great deal to promoting the development of painting in Shandong province.