Research On Guo Xi's Artistic Conception Of Painting In Lin Quan Gao Zhi

Guo xi is painter and painting theorist in northern of Song Dynasty.He is good at creating landscape painting and praised as "the best in all the land" by Zhe zong Emperor.He had been very famous in later ages.Guo Si is the son of Guo xi.He Sorted the remnant articles of his father into a book which was named "Lin Quan Gao Zhi" or "The Set of Lin Quan Gao Zhi".This book is based on summarizing the experience of predecessors' landscape painting creation.It also has been added Guo xi's own experience and bringing up artistic insights of him.At the same time,it has formed theoretical system completely.Many aesthetic propositions embody Guo xi's artistic conception of painting in this book,which is from object to emotion and from emotion to meaning finally.This article mainly from three aspects to research Guo xi's artistic conception of painting:Firstly: recording of the objective object exactly.It is called “the viewpoint of real object”.It's observing and recording the objective object extremely and completely.In Guo xi's view,observing nature completely,selecting material carefully and mastering objects skillfully can help painters know well about artistic image.They can make the real object extremely by painting the real landscape,using Chinese brush and ink to show the texture of landscape,perfect screen layout to show the momentum and lasting appeal of landscape.Secondly: expressing subjective emotion completely.It is called “the viewpoint of emotional expression”.It's about the specific requirements of psychology and self-cultivation that painters need when they are painting from start to finish.In Guo xi's eyes,aesthetic subject should has“the mind of Lin Quan” when facing aesthetic object.He had advocated that painters should be with empty static and have rich knowledge and experience.And then,painters can make the subjective feeling into the objective object smoothly.Finally: the distillation of meaning when subject and object havefused completely.It is called “the viewpoint of ethereal meaning”.It's the distillation of painters' sentiment and paintings' theme which are based on the incorporation of emotion and scene.Guo xi believes the skills of brush and ink,screen layout can help to create an ethereal meaning with the incorporation of emotion and scene.When appreciating the painting,the admirer must be affected by the artistic conception,feel the sentiment of painter with “the mind of Lin Quan”.When admirer's own sentiment has been triggered,the aesthetic activity is already finished at the time.Thousands of years has passed away,"Lin Quan Gao Zhi" still has its classical significance to this day.It has summed up the experience of Guo xi's painting creation and showed his essential insights about art.Its high aesthetic value has profound implications to the later generations.Certainly,because of history and the limits of Guo xi's knowledge,there are some deficiencies about his artistic conception of painting in this book.Even so,Guo xi's artistic conception of painting and "Lin Quan Gao Zhi" have already influenced contemporaneous painters.They have had an effect on literati painting creation and style since the Yuan Dynasty.The modern painters read and study them over and over again as well.In the development of landscape painting's history,Guo xi's artistic conception of painting and "Lin Quan Gao Zhi" has an epoch-marking significance.