The Research Of Painting Style Evolution Of Chen Hongshou

In the history of Chinese painting, a famous painter who has a great achievement of portraiture,flowers, birds and landscape, Chen hongshou (Chen i.e.) lived through later Ming dynasty and early Qingdynasty. He is so intelligent when he was young that in the teenager he has shown extraordinary talent forpainting; and learns painting from Lan ying in his early years, and also from other outstanding painters inthe later years, applying the skills in his own painting. His painting style of unique, vivid, lively and remoteantiquity has a great influence on later generations in the whole history of Chinese painting.First chapter of this article analyzes a series of basic situation of Ming dynasty with presenting variouspainting appearance, many painting schools with their changing, many painters, and multifarious paintingstyle as well, to affirm the historical status of Chen all of that is based on the social background of lateMing and early Qing dynasty. Then it is divided into three parts of detail introduces about his bumpy lifeand learning experience. With lots of historical records, it’s can be learned that Chen’s painting style isflounced by sorts of masters, and he has created new style from learning old paints preliminary. Moreoverwe can acknowledge his anguish for having no business with his country but full of patriotic passion, whichhas closely related to his wild uninhibited personality and creative psychology and aesthetic thought.Then the2nd part is the key section, it shows the specific appearance of Chen’s painting stylechanging on portraiture, flowers, birds and landscape, and reveals the trace of painting style changes andunique art charm. While the analysis of his portraiture focuses on the changing of painting style, the relatedcharacter and distinctive features based on the different types paints; and the researching of flowers, birds ismore about his distinct characteristics by his paints with different elements; study on its own styleevolution of landscape painting by his drawing style and artistic concepts. During this period not only itshows the progress of Chen with continuously breaking through ego style of painting, but also extrudes hiscreativities on Chinese painting by his learning from traditions. So that people can not only grasp hispainting characteristics on the macro, also the manifestation of the style changing in microcosm.And the3rd part focuses on the factors causing his changing of painting style, with analysis fromsociety politics, economy and culture, and the development of philosophy of late Ming dynasty, to witness a painter’s whole life, so that proves the influences on aesthetic value-orientation and painting thought bythe society environment, and how it works on his own painting style forming and changing. And also fromthe perspective of his own, that focuses on the two pairs of noticeable contradictions influencing hispersonal psychology, that is, the contradiction of devotion to both career and painting art, and of his loyaltyto former dynasty and a shame life. The mood causing by these contradictions is shown in his paintingsexplicitly. The last part presents the influences to the generations and the inspiration to the contemporaryera of the charm of his personality and his paint art, and the valuable references we can learn from. Themain point is that Chen had merged other masters’ painting style and created his own painting style at thesame time when he was learning, to form his unique painting characteristics.