Zhang Daqian Splash-ink Splashed Color Landscape Painting The Revelation And Influence Of Contemporary Landscape Painting Color

In the history of modern Chinese painting, Zhang Daqian, with his excellent artistic achievement and legendary life, became a well-deserved and famous master of Chinese painter. He is a master of everything on the subject matter of painting. At the same time, with comprehensive expression of his extraordinary talent that "I have everything once in my eyes’" Zhang Daqian assimilate nutrition from previous dynasties and various factions. In his twilight years, he could jump out of traditional barriers and enter into a gorgeous and dreamlike reform period when he integrated such artistic vocabulary with brush, ink and color, and set the trend of ink-splashed and color-splashed Chinese landscape painting. Obviously, it is a challenge to the traditional thought of Chinese ink painting and literati painting. This paper tries to adopt the historical development of landscape painting’s color as coordinate, takes the influence of Zhang Daqian’s ink-splashed and color-splashed painting on contemporary landscape painting’s color as starting point, places the fragments in the historical context to have an examination, objectively rather than grasps its contribution to the landscape painting, and finally expresses the author’s opinions on those issues.This thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter one briefly introduces the artistic formation and stylistic features of Zhang Daqian’s ink-splashed and color-splashed Chinese landscape painting. Chapter two talks about technical innovation and contribution of Zhang Daqian’s ink-splashed and color-splashed painting through grasping of the historical development of landscape painting’s color. In addition, a more sober understanding of the practical significance of ink-splashed and color-splashed painting on modern and contemporary landscape painting color is also include in this chapter. Under the principle that everything has two sides, chapter three explores some limitation and deficiencies of the ink-splashed and color-splashed painting on the development of landscape painting color through studying of the basic technical factors and Zhang Daqian’s artistic experience. And lastly the author discusses her own opinion and reflection on the orientation of the development of landscape painting’s color.