| The Song Dynasty was a period of high prosperity in Chinese painting art.Court paintings,scholar-bureaucratic paintings,and folk paintings presented a splendid situation.The literati had a fundamental turn in their attitude of paintings into transactions.The Song Dynasty was an important development stage of the economic development of painting.The improvement of people’s cultural quality,the relative stability of politics,and the rapid development of the social economy are reflected in the Song Dynasty paintings,which show the increasingly prominent characteristics of commercialization.Painting transactions are activities that collect or sell through the exchange between money and things or feelings,emotions and interest between people.So,painting transactions and are very different from the current market economy.The nature of the painting itself is multi-dimensional.It can be a personal collection,a gift,or a self-invented work.It can be a symbol of status,economic ability or aesthetic level.It can also be a commodity that is in circulation or a mortgage.In addition,sometimes the parties to the transaction are not absolute exchanges of equal value,but only relatively balanced valuation.There is value for money or worthless even.But the painting economy is always developing and prospering in the long river of historical progress.Painting works belong to high-end consumption in economic development.The development of the painting economy has its own traces,interacts with artistic creation.At the same time,it also stimulates the development of other industries surrounding the cultural.The location and mode of the painting trade in the Song Dynasty has demonstrated diverse features.It contains fixed-point store transactions,bazaar trading,and cross-border trade.There has direct sales transactions,as well as consignment sales and mortgage loans.The factors that affect the price of painting are also complicated.It is closely related to the value of the work,the artist’s reputation,the relationship between supply and demand,etc.The price of the painting may vary due to the buyer’s preference.Some of the paintings are even a combination of art and precious antiques,and their prices are far more than just measurable by economic factors. |
