A Study Of Hua Yan's Feather Paintings

Hua Yan is one of the more representative painters in Yangzhou painting school.He is good at landscape,flowers and birds,and figures,among which his achievement of flowers and birds paintings is the most outstanding.Hua Yan merges the aesthetic taste of literati paintings with the popular interest of folk paintings and forms the style of small freehand brushwork,which is fresh and elegant,and creates a new style of feather painting at that time,which has a profound influence on later generations.This article takes Hua Yan's feather paintings as the objects of study.First of all,it analyzes the causes of Hua Yan's artistic proposition by combining the background of the era,the influence of the rising artistic trend on him and his artistic experience.Secondly,it analyzes the causes of Hua Yan's painting style from the following four aspects:the inheritance of predecessors,the influence of painting style in Yangzhou,the aesthetic interest of literary quality and the dominant sense of self-innovation.Then from the four aspects of the pen and ink,color,form characteristics,composition and artistic concept construction,it analyzes the artistic characteristics of Hua Yan feather paintings.Finally,through the influence of Hua Yan on the Shanghai School and the inspiration to the contemporary art creation,this paper discusses the influence and inspiration of Hua Yan feather paintings on the later generations.