Research On Linguistic Form And Diversity Of Chinese Brush-Stroke Paintings

There is a long history of Chinese Brush-Stroke Painting which is the originalform of Chinese Traditional Figure Painting. As early as the Qin and Han Dynastyappeared the initial form of the Brush-Stroke Painting which was figured with linesand applied pastel hues. By the Tang Dynasty, Chinese Brush-Stroke Painting peakedby following the realism expression of "Observe Nature and Understand it", and got aricher painting language. The emergence of the Literati Painting in the Song Dynastybrought about the decline of the Brush-Stroke Painting, and made it graduallytransformed to sketch figure and stick figure. In this time landscape paintings were themainstream. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty, Literati Paintings still dominatedthe art world, however, painters inherited and retained the painting techniques of theBrush-Stroke Painting, which made a slight change in figure and color, but ChineseBrush-Stroke Painting kept the declining trend of the development.Since the Reform and Opening-up, Chinese Brush-Stroke Painting has beenrecovered and achieved some success. Statistical data indicates that, in the main artexhibitions of the country in recent years, there has been the growth of the proportionof Brush-Stroke Paintings and the numbers of its painters. Along with the culturediversity, the development of contemporary Chinese Brush-Stroke Paintings, withdifferent performance forms, has also shown a pluralistic state.First of all, the paper researched on the traditional form of Chinese Brush-StrokePaintings by illustration, and sorts out the development of traditional Brush-StrokePaintings at different times, from the appearance of Brush-Stroke Paintings in Qin andHan Dynasty, to the peak of Brush-Stroke Paintings in Tang Dynasty, then to theappearance of literati paintings and the decline of Brush-Stroke Paintings after TangDynasty, summarized the regulation of the arts development, and rediscovered thetradition. Then the paper did classification researches on the forms of contemporaryBrush-Stroke Paintings, including four factors. Firstly, on the basis of traditionalBrush-Stroke Paintings, contemporary Brush-Stroke Paintings grasped the traditionalvocabularies to develop themselves. As a traditional realist form, how contemporaryBrush-Stroke Paintings could refer the anatomy, perspective, sketch and shadingtechniques in the western paintings realism to promote the development ofBrush-Stroke Paintings? Secondly, the paper researched on the contemporary Brush-Stroke Paintings’ enjoyable form which was defined by me as a creative formthat absorbed the wash paintings’ language and the enjoyable intention. This form is akind of aesthetic ideas and artistic concepts, relative to Shaping, and endowsBrush-Stroke Paintings the performance effect of enjoyable spirit. Thirdly, the paperresearched on the decorative form of contemporary Chinese Brush-Stroke Paintings.Paintings of this form paid more attention to the formal beauty, on the basis ofdecoration of traditional Brush-Stroke Paintings, especially with the involvement ofthe modern planar composition notion, generated new painting appearance. Finally,the paper researched on the new form of contemporary Chinese Brush-StrokePaintings because of the involvement of new materials, obviously such as the learningof the painting material and production method under the influence of the modernJapanese painting, and the excavation and innovation of traditional Chinese pigments.This form enriched and developed Chinese Brush-Stroke Paintings, gave birth to newvisual experience, and presented new appearance.The main purpose of the paper is, through the researches on the historicaldevelopment of Chinese Brush-Stroke Paintings and the forms of contemporaryChinese Brush-Stroke Paintings, to confirm that Brush-Stroke Paintings have everbeen developed on the basis of succeeding traditions and innovating, to verify theimportance of learning traditions, and to validate that contemporary ChineseBrush-Stroke Paintings must be combined with the times background and foreign artsto make more progress on the basis of traditions.