Combination Water And Color-The Beauty Of Illusion In Watercolor Painting

The American psychologist James described the experience about aesthetic feelings like that: "The moment we are touched by the beauty,we can feel our heart is burning with a kind of sharp pain,our breathing is jolted,our eyes is moistened,our inside is stirring, and in addition,we can feel a kind of ineffable signal." Indeed,the watercolor art can also reflect all kinds of aesthetic feelings. Blending transparent and smart water with color is just like playing beautiful ’light music’ on the paper. Since the watercolor art was introduced into China from western countries, it shows a subtle poetic beauty by mingling with Oriental culture. With moist,soft,flowing, lucid and lively characteristic, it makes painting a kaleidoscope of color. Some show a blend of water and color like nature itself. Some are wanton, mottled and colorful. I believe that there is no painting style than watercolor that can totally express the dreamlike beauty. From 18 th century British artist Turner’ s watercolor landscape painting, to contemporary Chinese artist Liu Yi’s watercolor figure painting, lots of great works from outstanding artist flow a kind of dreamlike beauty. That beauty is flooding in viewers’ senses that is hard to explain and feel in real life.In respect of characteristic of blending of water and color, this paper will discuss artistic effects of dreamlike beauty, and will broaden the extension of watercolor art appeal, and will explore its expression force in art creation and its revelation in new art style and feature, finally to inject new vitality to development of watercolor art. Specifically, this paper willmainly discuss these from five aspects.The first part, introduction. This part will summarize the innovation of this research, research purpose and significance. In addition, this part will also sort out domestic and overseas’ review in this field. The second part, connotation of dreamlike beauty in watercolor art. This part will define the conception of dreamlike beauty and dreamy art and discuss the extension of dreamlike beauty. The third part, expression force of dreamlike beauty in watercolor. This part will focus on analysis of dreamlike beauty in watercolor from various angles and discuss the expression force of dreamlike beauty from Turner and Liu Yi’ s emotional experience and aesthetic intention.The fourth part, promoting and expanding watercolor characteristics by dreamlike beauty. This part will further discuss from two aspects. On the one hand, this part will analyze how dreamlike beauty can promote watercolor charm by adding watercolor ’rhyme’ flavor and promoting the charm of color. On the other hand, this part will discuss the extension of dreamlike beauty in watercolor’ expressive language and further think about the watercolor creation and continuity. The fifth part, conclusion.This part will review and summarize the main research.