"The Literati's Artistic Conception": Wumen's Four Garden-themed Works

Ming dynasty,it is very popular in building classical gardens in Jiangnan area.There are four representative painter in wu men family,Shen zhou,Wen zheng ming,Tang yin and Qiu ying.They created a large number of landscape paintings.The paper is from the perspective of traditional and innovation,inheritance and development,taking the private classical gardens of Jangnan as the entry point,explore Wu door four garden theme paintings,analyze the characteristics of garden paintings and humanistic spirit and aesthetic interest in the works.It is of great theoretical and practical significance to the development of garden art and mountains-and-waters painting in Ming dynasty.Through the analysis of works,we found:first of all,scholars rely on garden paintings express the reclusive thought and ideal feelings.Garden art learn from nature but higher than nature,to make a small garden looks larger and more skillful,abide by the objective law of natural harmony and the unity of people and nature that is the outlook on nature.Pursuit the realm of poetic and pictorial splendor,merging feeling with scenery.What is more,four great masters paintings are full of creative and enjoyable,it is emphasis leisurely and beautiful environment,delicate and beautiful Jingnan private gardens,and different from the magnificent royal garden paintings of Song dynasty,reflect the national characteristics and the spirit of the times in Ming dynasty.Last but not the least,through the works,express the comfortable living conditions of scholars,they enjoy gathering,chanting poetry and painting pictures,embody scholar’ s quiet and elegant life state and aesthetic concepts.The embodiment of mountains-and-waters painting in the garden is that with the development of gardenart,emphasize the realm of natural spirit,in the limited space incarnate infinite artistic conception.Seek harmony between human and nature,careful conception,sophisticated design,beautiful shape,reasonable layout.They are similar in approach,layout,choose the scene,artistic conception,creative means and so on.My thesis takes painters representative works for example,such as,Shen zhou dong zhuang atlas,Wen zheng ming,zhen shang zhai picture,Tang yin,qiu feng zhi shan painting,Qiu ying,fight grass picture.Combine the trait of literati painting,mutual comparison picturesque scene and garden mood.Garden as painting,painting as garden,the highest realm they pursuit is poetic and pictorial splendor.Their works are realistic,delicate,and careful.The ink is along with the times,reflect the distinctive traits of the times and painting style.Gardens and paintings interacted with each other and developed together,both of which reflect the idea that Chinese palace a premium on nature.