A Study Of Wang Xuezhong's Technique Of Landscape Painting

The achievement of Wang Xuezhong's calligraphy is well-known in contemporary socie-ty.As a versatile artist,his landscape paintings are rarely known.He possesses abundant sinology from the influence of traditional Confucian education during his childhood,while conventional ideology cannot restrict his artistic ideality pursuing modern literati paint-ing.Wang Xuezhong is an active promoter and practitioner in the field of reforming literati paintings,he is devoted to modern literati painting which combining traditional literati painting and modern life,he also advocates that art should face life,people,society and traditional literati actively,contrib-uting to criticize negative and evasive mentality of traditional scholars meanwhile absorbs the high-yield,concise and subtle artistic aesthetics.In other words,he inherited the view that is concerned Chinese painting reform originate from Xu Beihong,“keep the best ancient methods,inherit the extinction,im-prove the inferiority and accept western paintings”.After the People's Republic of China estab-lished,under the materialist art theory of Marxist philosophy and profound comprehension of Chinese and foreign art theories,Wang Xuezhong proposed modern literati paintings should develop Chinese national style,encourage the soul of Chinese masses,fit the current times and express personal emotion that is his ultimate artistic ideal,with the exploration and innovation in paintings,his art works form a unique artistic style:Zhong,?Zhuo?Qi?Kuang,reached historic achievement.Wang Xuezhong introduced outdoors sketching into the improvement of traditional land-scape painting,he added the natural complexity,richness and naturalness into drawings,which is inherit from fine tradition of realism of “outside the creature”,by the means of sketching communicate with natural scenery and convey the charm and inter-est of landscape painting,in addition gradually transforms from the realistic sketch of "visu-al handwriting" to the "visual of mind" and discovering new patterns and ink techniques.With the experience of Western watercolor painting skill,blending the elements of Chinese traditional landscape paintings,ex-press the spiritual theme of loving the people,loving the society,loving the nation,and loving the country by metaphor in drawings,creative new artistic conception and new modality in today's world.