The Study On The Decoration Of Characters In Wang Meng’s Landscape Paintings

The decoration characters in Wang Meng’s Landscape paintings develop from using reference and communicating at the beginning. Then he creates distinctive decoration characters independently, which have his own style. The development is relevant to the gradual maturity of Wang Meng’s painting style. Decoration characters come into diversity in Wang Meng’s painting works and they are showed in rich themes, varied shapes and forms, changeable painting style, the latest identity of character and the strong personal characteristic. Despite of the humble cottage theme he loved, there are also themes about the diligent study and the lusting for comfort and seclusion life. Compared with decoration characters in the whole Yuan dynasty, the characters created by Wang Meng contains more varied themes. It is worth of mentioning that the development trend of decoration character is consistent with the development way of painting on the whole. But the development trend decoration character’s statue is opposite to the former two as we mentioned before. Because of the Wang Meng’s unique decoration characters style, many descendants follow his style, which can be reflected in the works of some artists such as Shen Zhou and Wen Zheng Ming who is close with Shen Zhou.