The "blank" Art In The Paintings Of Bada Shanren

The biggest difference between Chinese painting and western painting is the"white space",making black in the painting and corner.One of the highest realm in the Chinese painting is the "white space" of water and ink.In the late of Ming and early Qing dynasty,there was a royal descendant-Zhuda,at his later years of the age of 59,he was named as "Badashanren".He left us later generations in the painting works,one of the greatest his painting artistic style is indifferent,grotesque and with a large area of white space,neither the words nor the poems in the paintings are obscure.Qigong has said that there is hardly a single of the poems which in the paintings could be explained clearly.However through Badashanren's paintings,the figures created in his paintings with indifferent,grotesque,a large area of white space and the obscure words?poems,we can see a person who is in front of humiliation bumpy life fate,unyielding struggle,and changed this kind of life struggle spirit,emotions and nostalgic for old country into a pure pursuit of art.Everything goes to be familiar,hazy and unreal.Make a strong psychic resonance between readers and Badashanren,and make us rethinking about our life,exploring the questions about his paintings.In ancient China history,painters were divided into two groups.One class is the professional painter who is known as artisan.They have left a lot of precious legacies in the treasure house of Chinese painting art;the other kind of class is the literati painter who embodies literati,and gradually became the practitioner,summary and advocate of the spirit of art history in the development of Chinese painting history.For whom,painting is rather than their profession,tend to hold multiple posts,and are familiar with philosophy?literature?religion and music,etc.,and also rich in knowledge?cultivation.Badashanren belong to the latter,he was familiar when younger with Chinese traditional classics and had a profound understanding of the Zen-Buddhism and Taoist thought for his later literati paintings.The art works of Badashanren,with pictures of large area white space,broken mountains and water,desolate silence wild,special painting style,shocking reader's heart,made Badashanren a great art master in Chinese art history and even world art history.Badashanren influences greatly the later generations,such as"Yangzhoubaguai"?"Haipai" in the late Qing dynasty and Qibaishi?Zhangdaqian and so on in modern times,none of their artistic styles are not affected by.The books and papers which sorting and researching about Badashanren are very much.Well,this paper is based on the clues of white space,making the painting art character together with life experiences,to analyze the spirit of the paintings.a.The paper takes two words of "white space" have two meanings,one is the blank left corner features in Chinese painting pictures,another means the bumpy and missing life of Badashanren.The paper uses the two words of "white space" connected the ups and downs life of Badashanren's vicissitudes as well as the art characteristics of his paintings,to analyze profoundly the techniques used to express "white space" and the spirit connotation through the pictures of the paintings.b.By using two characters of "white space" in the paper,illustrates that the Badashanren's art achievements,is not strive for his life as a beginner's mind,but the encountered great difficulties in his life and eager for going out of the dilemma to open an another window without attentiveness,is a result of feeling the world and showing the world intently.Also this paper analyzes further the deep reasons why Badashanren didn't leave a system of the painting theory.c.The paper takes two words of "white space" also have a practical significance is that we couldn't make achievements without hard working.Especially in art,when we struggled to come up with some great tricks,but found at last that there is nothing in your hands.The right way we should take is that when we step up into the art palace,must follow Badashanren,to comprehend the world,to show the world with tender care,as it says:"the heaven will get old if be with feeling,the right way for the whole world is changing".Only in this way can we create inspired art works.