The Formation And Performance Of Bogut Theme Painting During The Period Of The Republic Of China In The Late Qing Dynasty

The concept of Bogut first appeared in the Xuanhe Bogut compiled in the period of emperor Huizong in Song Dynasty.It was picture book and atlas that described bronze wares in Shang and Zhou Dynasties.Until the Ming Dynasty,the concept of Bogut is very stable.In the middle and late Ming Dynasty,a new kind of Bogut appeared,which described the scene of literati gathering and appreciating antiquities.It could be said that since the Bogut paintings came into being,its development had never stopped.From the early Qing Dynasty to the middle period,court painter,taking the Bogut handed down from Ming Dynasty as original version,crated the Bogut painting works with the theme expressing the court women's appreciation of antiquities.During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China,Flower Bogut appeared.Its theme was the combination of holomorph rubbings of sacrificial vessels engraved with inscriptions in honor of worthy men and traditional themes of vegetables &flowers in the Qing Dynasty.From the beginning of 1900 s to 1940 s,it was the heyday of Bogut painting.The appearance of Bogut painting had great relationship with Chinese traditional"preference for antiques" cultural background.The prosperous period of Bogut"painting must be the same with epigraphy and textual research.The study of epigraphy unprecedented,especially during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.Meanwhile,a large number of antiquities unearthed in that period.Therefore,the literati were favorably disposed towards the Bogut paintings.The reasons why the Bogut paintings became prosperous was the appearance of holomorph rubbings,the social and economic development,and the prosperity of flower and bird painting.Epigraphy,artists,businessmen were fond of Antiquities at that time.There were many scholars in periphrastic filed.In that period,most Bogut paintings relied on cooperative completion of collectors,the craftsman relaying rubbings and painters.These works not only had a unique style of creation,but also were a carrier of stone culture.The Bogut paintings at that period were full of various forms.There were similarities and differences with the Bogut paintings in the past.What was worth disentangling and discussing was the reasons for its creation,the formation of its background,the specific performance of the previous researchers and the errors in the process of their research.There are lots of works studying the Bogut paintings.However,there are not so many works separately studying the Bogut paintings in the period of Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.In previous studies,researchers often regard the Bogut paintings in the period of Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China as Bogut paintings with the characteristics of Shanghai,equated the creation of Bogut paintings in the period of Late Ding Dynasty and the Republic of China to the Flower Bogut,mistook the works with the combination of bronze sacrificial utensils and vegetables & flowers for the concept of still life painting in the western paintings.However,these views are not rigorous.Therefore,the paper starts from the development of the theme of Bogut paintings,focusing on the collation of relevant literature and information.Through these specific data,the author focuses on the causes of formation process and performance of Bogut paintings in that period.Supporting views are elaborated through reference,contrast,examples and other methods.This paper is divided into four parts.The first chapter describes the historical development of Bogut paintings.The second chapter discusses what causes the origin and prosperity of Bogut paintings during the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China,and explores them through the historical background and environmental factors.The third chapter focus the concrete embodiment of Bogut paintings during the late period of Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China,classifies them according to the time,the appearance of the work,the identity of the creator and so on,and combines specific works as well as pictures and information related to the author to elaborate them.The fourth chapter describes the status of antique painting creation,and summarizes today's research on Bogut paintings.