Research About The Art Revolution Assertion Of Ling-Nan School Of Painting

Ling-Nan School of Painting is an important genre of painting in Chinese art history in the first half of the 20th century; it is also the unique drawing force in the field of Chinese painting. The representative of the Ling-Nan School of Painting painters is Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng and Chen Shuren, "two Gao one Chen" studied in Japan at a very early age, on the basis of the traditional Chinese painting, fusion of western painting, they trying to create a "new traditional Chinese painting" to break through the stifling effects of the "old Chinese painting". They cultivated talent, wrote theory and practiced, and then they found the needed theory, practice and members system to form a genre painting.Guangdong province, "the south of the five ridges", is located in the south of our country, the weather is warmth, many mountains and rivers distribute here, animals and plants are diversity. Due to it’s adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, facing the South China Sea and Southeast Asia, and at the transportation hub location of the Pacific, Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Guangdong known as the "Marine silk road", which played an important role for Guangdong’s connection with the world. These conditions also make the Ling-Nan painter form distinctive artistic style and understanding.A hundred years ago, Sun Zhongshan in Tokyo founded alliance, put forward the political program of "repel tartar Krupp, the restoration of China, the establishment of the Republic of China, the average land ownership", and "three principles of the people", which was "nation, civil rights, people’s livelihood". He led the revolution to overthrow the Qing government; the bourgeois republic regime was born. However, Yuan Shikai stole the Xin Hai the fruits of the revolution soon, China was lost in the warlord of the situation and Imperialism took the opportunity to carve up China. At the same time, under the influence of western scientific thought, the New Culture Movement appeared, the Chinese thinkers formed a wave of thought liberation affected all areas, including Chinese painting. Kang Youwei, Chen Duxiu and others attacked paintings in the Qing dynasty, some returned students from the west try to change the tends to corrupt China traditional painting a thousand years by using the advanced western painting techniques,.Influenced by Sun Zhongshan’s democratic revolution ideology, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng and Chen Shuren joined the league During the studied period in Japan. After returning home, joined the Xin Hai revolution, held a series of important post. They participated in the uprising, and vertical and horizontal battlefield, and willing to use life and blood in exchange for a new Chinese. They are not only great painter, but also the revolutionary through the baptism of the war, the practitioner of The political revolution" and "Art Revolution", they made the revolution as their goal, impel the action of life every step of the way, in the hope that reform the "national spirit" by Arts at the same time with the "political revolution".Thus, based on "political revolution", they put forward the "Art Revolution" idea and make the "eclectic blend ancient and modern, Chinese and western" as the purpose of Ling-Nan School of Painting, implement the form of Chinese and Western Painting style together. "Two Gao one Chen" study from Julian, the late Qing dynasty painter, and then influenced by Japanese Painter Zhuneixifeng in Japan, which has laid a solid foundation by using the "new traditional Chinese painting" to transform "old Chinese painting", "art revolution" of the Ling-Nan School of Painting has impacted the decayed Chinese painting in the late Qing dynast, active the academic atmosphere of Chinese painting and promoted the development of Chinese painting. As the representative of the Ling-Nan school painters, "two Gao and one Chen" join in Xin Hai revolution and the war of resistance against Japan, they publicize the revolution, describe the social life, reform, innovation, integrated the western painting light and color into the creation of Chinese painting. They reflect the reality, sketching, exhibitions, enriched the public life, and inspired the patriotic salvation spirit of the people. Their works, for the traditional Chinese painting has injected the vitality of The Times, given the new social function of Chinese painting.Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng started the "spring sleep painting" and "Tianfeng building", and trained a large number of talent Chinese painter, established the talent team of the Ling-Nan School of Painting,such as Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Huang Dufeng, Fang Rending, Su Wonong, Zhao Shaoang, Yang Shanshen etc.,formed their system.A lot of "spring sleep painting" and "Tianfeng building" students actives in the country,have made important contributions to the Anti Japanese War and after the founding of the socialist construction. The Ling-Nan School of Painting in addition affected the time of Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Zhang Shuqi and a large number of innovative painters, and also through the generations of descendants, such as Zeng Xiaohu, Huang Gesheng, Bai Xiaojun, Chen Bing and other artists continued to flourish in today.Just like the limitation of Sun Zhongshan democratic revolution, the action change in Chinese painting of the Ling-Nan School of Painting has its historical limitations. The deficiencies understanding of Chinese traditional painting and the deviation of understanding of Western painting, which lead to the "Art Revolution" lacks the proper basis and the end result did not fulfill the expectations. However, the Ling-Nan School of Painting has left behind the precious heritage for us; their lofty realm of thought inspired us to continue to explore the development direction Chinese painting art. The experience and lessons of "Art Revolution" of Ling-Nan School of Painting inspires the innovation of Chinese Painting and plays the important role of today under the background of globalization.