The Chinese Painting And Calligraphy Identification Of Wu Hufan

In the 20th century of China,the instability of social environment made the Chinese cultural relics large-scale accumulation and dispersion.At this time Public and private collections of Forging and domestic become unprecedented flourish.Shanghai attracted many collectors and connoisseurs as one of the earliest open port city.And it formed a group which based on Zhang Heng,Pang Laichen,Wu Hufan,Zhang Daqian.It was especially valuable to excavate the national cultural resources to revive the traditional Chinese painting.Wu Hufan become the core of the most influential characters in the calligraphy and painting circles in shanghai.Wu Hufan was born in a very wealthy family.From the born he was destined to Inherit the rich family collection.The collections of his two grandfathers Wu Dacheng and Shen Yunchu,the cultural relics and dowry of his wife,and the collection he exchanged or bought from oters.these things make his collections more and more.The orthodox context of his scholarly family makes Wu Hufan in a traditional cultural environment when he was a child.These things throughout and influenced and his pursuit of appreciationand creation.In the reform trend such as surge pressure,Wu Hufan adhered to and advocate national culture essence to revive the Chinese painting.He try his best to protect traditional culture.This is very valuable at that time.Follow the traditional thread,He has obtained remarkable achievement in the painting and calligraphy creation and also in appreciation and collection.The Chouyi Diary is Wu Hufa' s partial diary in 1931-1939.From this diary we can see his daily activities about art.His attainment of drawing and the knowledge which he learned from his family inevitably produced profound effect on his activity of collection and appreciation.But his activity of collection and appreciation also provided rich resources and solid foundation for its creation.His creation is a learning and absorbing of his collection and appreciation,this was also one of the features and basis of traditional Chinese painting.This article hopes to systemize the creation and collection about Wu Hufan' s painting and calligraphy as well as commuctions with his friends which recorded in The Chouyi Diary.From his daily life to explore and research and through this diary trivial materials we wanted to present the characteristics of Wu Hufan' sappreciation and collection and the relationship between his creation of painting and calligraphy and appreciation and collection in a specific way.And also it can present the characteristics of Wu Hufan' s time about these things.At most it can present Wu Hufan' s significant contribution and the significance of founding on the Chinese painting and calligraphy identification.