On The Development and the Characteristics of Chinese Scholar's Painting

The Chinese scholar painting is an integrated art that intensively displays painters' extensive erudition.It came into being between the Northern and the Southern Dynasties;developed in the Tang and the Song dynasties;prospered in the Yuan,the Ming and the Qing dynasties;matured in modern and contemporary history.It lays stress on the subjective re-ink style and pen and ink style,whose theme is about plum,orchid,bamboo and chrysanthemum,as well as flowers and birds,etc.Thus,drawing shifts from the traditional object-imaged analog to symbolic expressing,and the traditional Chinese painting tends to be more and more expressive.