The paper aims to explore Wang Lv’s life experiences and artistic beliefs throughhistoric background and social identity, ideological origin and academic knowledge,artistic inheritance and structure in his brush-and-ink works. The paper involves bothliterature review on Wang Lv’s travel and landscape paintings and case study on hispainting series named Huashan and his Huashan poems. The paper concludes thatWang Lv is a pioneer in travel and landscape painting and poetry. Not only did hepaint Huashan when he traveled there, but also expressed his reflection on the travelvia a combination of painting and poetry. He conveyed an artistic conception whichwas in harmony with aesthetic standards. Wang’s achievements have given a greatimpact on selecting themes and expressing emotions in painting and poetry. Hisinfluences on cultural heritage in late Ming dynasty can not be ignored. |