The Application Of Decorative Skills Of Trees And Rocks Of Dunhuang Frescoes In Artistic Creation-the Exploration And Practice On Paintings Of Qilian Mountain

The colorful Dunhuang frescoes represents religion,figures of tales,flowers,animals,mountains,waters,trees and etc.,which reflects the abundant artistic styles.Although the mountains,waters,trees and rocks are not the independent unit of the creation of the frescoes,the demonstration of tress and rocks plays a big role in the frescoes or grottos.The creation of such things relies on their own meanings.To seek the pattern of creation of mountains,waters,trees and rocks in Dunhuang frescoes may visualize some of the documents that records mountains-and-waters paintings and provide the evidence.By doing so,the origin of Chinese landscape painting would be traced and the development of Chinese landscape painting would be raveled out.Meanwhile,the process might inspire the inheritance of Chinese landscape painting to bring the vintage style and innovation to the creation of this sort of painting.The images of trees and rocks in the Dunhuang frescoes offer an evidence of the origin of Chinese landscape painting.Combined with well-developed and various skills of Chinese landscape painting,searching for the details on the basis of precedent study on the tress and rocks of Dunhuang frescoes would offer an opportunity to apply such decorative skills of trees and rocks into practice.At the same time,taking Qilian Mountain,which bred the beauty of Dunhuang,as an example,the exploration of the connection between the Qilian Mountain and the illustrations of trees and rocks in Dunhuang frescoes may reveal the artistic languages used by those ancient painters.This paper focus on the expression of trees and rocks of Dunhuang frescoes in early-to-mid phrase.With the analogy analysis on frescoes from different stages and the verification between documents and corresponding reality,it demonstrates this form of art by the help of practice.The special landscape of Qilian Mountain,which was expressed by the ancient painters,would be re-created in the manner of modern landscape painting.Such work would bridge the gap between the ancient and the modern of landscape painting and profoundly understand the development of this form of art.And the soul of the Chinese landscape painting would be taken as the core of creation in the future.