Bai Yuchan's painting thoughts of integrating painting with immortality:a study of his landscape painting theory and Taoist thought
Bai Yuchan's painting theory reflects his understanding of the relationship between painting and Tao-ism.In his knowledge structure,the aim of painting is integrated with immortality.In his painting history,there are the outstanding painters in the different schools of painting.They can feel nature and reflect it in their paintings.Bai Yuchan's painting theory inherits the understanding of the relationship between the natural beauty and the form and spirit of landscape from Zhuangzi and Zongbing.Meantime,he reconstructs the no-tion of landscape in the painting with his personal knowledge of Taoism,and clarifies that the purport of painting is to integrate painting with immortality.His understanding of integrating painting with immortality influences the painting thought of Jin Pengtou and Huang Gongwang,and this integration eventually becomes one of the sources of the aesthetic thoughts of painting among the literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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