A Review Of The Development Of Watercolor Painting In Shanxi Province From The Perspective Of The Geographical And Cultural Advantages

The rich historical and culture heritages have brought a fertile land for the culturedevelopment of Shanxi Province today. The Human Geographic environment in ShanxiProvince has nurtured many eminent painters, as well as cultivating the unique spiritualoutlook of Shanxi’s fine arts. After the culture accumulation of thousands of years, the artspirit of Shanxi Province has already been endowed with regional characteristics of greatvariety in culture in-depth, strength robustness, natural simplicity and enterprising boldness.The geographical advantages of Shanxi Province have given birth to the culture advantages.Such geographical and cultural advantages never cease to promote the development ofpaintings in Shanxi Province. The Watercolor Paintings of Shanxi Province is a branch ofwatercolor paintings that embrace the process of nationalization. The “heavy” geographicaland cultural advantages of Shanxi Province have shaped the particular features of watercolorpaintings there. The influences are from the land, the culture condense; the characteristics oflocal humanity. The geographical and cultural advantages have been internalized in the worksof the watercolor painters. The watercolor paintings of Shanxi Province are majorly ofrealistic topics. The painters usually skillfully integrating their works with the geographic andcultural advantages of Shanxi province, making the styles of their works as heavy, grandeur,pure and simple as the soil land of Shanxi Province. So far, the artists of watercolor paintingin Shanxi Province have long adhered to the art path of probing into real life and vividlydepicting people’s lives. The art is characterized by its outstanding features of spiritual heaviness; sturdy, realistic and plain outlook. Such features make the arts different from thewatercolors elsewhere. As the direction of their future efforts, the watercolor paintersof Shanxi Province should, in regards of both the external forms and internal spirits, try theirbest in combining the Chinese Traditional esthetic ideology with their watercolor painting skills, yielding works notable for both national and regional spirits and characteristics.