By Day Loss-As Reflection On The Painting

DanDang was a monk painter in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. His unusual inner feelings formed his own unique artistic style, namely simple landscape paintings. In the painting history,simple landscape painters were not in the minority,such as Ni Zan, Ba Da, Jianjiang and so on. But the landscape paintings of DanDang were more thoroughly in the form of performance and aesthetic pursuit.For the composition of pictures, DanDang’s landscape painting composition does not fall behind the previous painters’. Concise appearance is the main external form, showing his iconoclastic aesthetic ability. In the application of ink, DanDang used the combination of point, line and plane, with minimalist form of pen and ink to present complex natural. For the conception of the painting,the works of DanDang were simple and unusual, giving people a sense of coldness and leading people to explore the spirit of the picture intention. Overall, DanDang’s works revealed a sense of extreme self-confidence. It maked his simple form typical.The aesthetic thought of an Dang was very worthy of discussion, "intended to overflow almost shape", "affectionately indifferent", "Hongmeng born without the ink", "scholar with Salmonella", "alone on the high-rise" and so on were regarded as the ideological and artistic characteristics of DanDang. In addition, DanDang’s simple art style was affected by many factors. His special life experience formed his personal temperament. What’s more, the influence of his teachers also played an important role in the formation of his style. In the study of DanDang’s art, in addition to analyze the influence of its own factors of work style, the broad development background of the art was also very necessary to research.From the point of a more long-term development of art, DanDang’s concise style did not happen overnight.His typical feature growed on the practical basis and art theory of other painters.So the simple form of DanDang is more like a summary and climax of concise style.In the spirit of Chinese traditional art, simple has always been one of the most respected aesthetic ideas of the artists, and the landscape paintings of DanDang do also practice this view. The research on DanDang has a very positive significance for the modern artists.It’s better to learn more, by day loss. In the pursuit of skills and knowledge, they should be higher and richer along with the time.But in this process,we should always identify and develop what is useful and discard what is not.We should appropriate ourselves and nature by a clean heart. We should learn to throw some unnecessary external form to a certain extent and practice simple art philosophy and the philosophy of life.