Schema Study Of Wu Zhen's Old Fisherman Painting

Since its born,Chinese landscape painting had got improvements in meanings,values,and aesthetic system,which promise further developments in different eras,follow by different requirement.Song & Yuan era is considered as a summit era of Chinese landscape painting.Yuan is a very significant one.There are Yuan Si Jia(Four Masters of Yuan)had great accomplishments in Literati painting,and led the mainstream strange of Chinese painting.Wu Zhen is one of Yuan Si Jia who specialized in ‘Old Fisherman Painting'.A large proportion of his works are named Old Fisherman Painting or found following the range of subjects of Old Fisherman.However,the subject of ‘Yu Yin'(Hidden Fishing)is not Wu Zhen's own patent,but a worship target to place his fortune on.Those painting works of Old Fisherman subjects can be seem as emotional expression of Wu's free-spirit inner world.The character of Old Fisherman had already become a self-reflective portrayal of the artist himself,so that the Old Fisherman Painting is no more a simply landscape painting.The schema of Old Fisherman Painting that made by Wu Zhen demonstrates an unique value.This paper tries to discuss this schema from three respects: First,the space schema from inner to extra;Second,schema of brush and ink,and the Last,the schema of Literati painting with poetry,calligraphy and painting.