The Reseach Of Zhang Yanyuan “on The Price Of Former” Paninting Price Theory

Chinese painting trade fair of ancient time had appeared in the spring and Autumn period. Experiencing the Wei-Jin dynasty to Sui and Tang Dynasties, the painting trade market had been booming. At this time, trading market of calligraphy works had “calligraphy evaluation” as the guidance on price theory, and the booming painting trade market also had the “research on fame, price and grade” of Zhang Yanyuan as painting price theory since late Tang Dynasty.The painting price theory of Zhang Yanyuan in “research on fame, price and grade” established the painting price theory from three aspects of “difference of calligraphy and painting”, “three ancient stages of the paintings” and “broad view”. He thought that calligraphy and painting had the same source, but they had different characteristics on representation form of picture, and their price couldn’t be evaluated with the same theoretical model. Zhang Yanyuan divided the previous painters into "three ancient stages and one modern stage", a total of four stages in accordance with the time order, highlighted that the unique historical value was an important factor to affect the price level of the special commodity painting. In addition, the price evaluation of painting works should be based on the quality of painting works, which had been affected by many factors, so Zhang Yanyuan said: the evaluation of painting price needed “broad view, can’t be judged entirely”.In “research on fame, price and grade”, Zhang Yanyuan put forward the evaluation standard of painting price, the affecting factors of painting price that put forward by him were the earliest and the most comprehensive. They included author fame, work age and the degree of scarcity, painting quality of works and status of painting works. In addition, the artistic value of painting works was the key factor to influence the painting price, Zhang Yanyuan divided the ancient painters into 10 levels in accordance with the artistic value of painting, different levels of work had different prices, which made the price evaluation criteria of painting works clearly.