On Chen Shi-zeng's Poetry: from "A Scholar's Poetry" to "A Painter's Poetry"

CHEN Shi-zeng,a modern painter,was also a well-known Tongguang-Style poet of Jiangxi School of Poetry.His father,CHEN San-li had been a great modern Tongguang-Style poet.CHEN Shi-zeng departed a bit from the Tongguang Style.The reason is that stimulated by an artist's talent,CHEN Shi-zeng's naturally deviated from his father's poem-composing way of Jiangxi School,which was featured by stressing scholars' poetry due to their striving for scholarly attainment and seeing poetic art as something to spare so that A painter's poetry formed,characteristic of natural-individuality-portraying,unbridled lucidness and refreshing newness.His poems' major part is composed of those in memory of the deceased,embodying ardent sincerity and unsophisticated pure honesty and those dedicating to paintings being particular about artistic mood and naturalness.His poems,blending all into one and striving to get through the common norms of such dynasties as the Wei,Jin,the Six Dynasties with Nanjing as their capital city,Tang and Song,are a hard hit at the style of obscurity and cryptic-ness of the last rigid period of his own school.