Paraphrasing and Comment on Gu Kaizhi’s Painting Theories

During the period of the Wei Kingdom,the Jin Dynasty,and the Southern and Northern Dynasties(220-589 A.D.),the painting art of the Han Dynasty was well inherited and carried forward,which took on rich and colorful visage.There arose professional painters and painting creations also became flourishing,churning out a myriad of outstanding talents.Gu Kaizhi stood out prominently as the greatest painting theorist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for his distinguished painting skills,his considerable cultural attainment and his detached temperament.He consciously blended his paintings with the personal sentiment and aesthetic taste of literati and scholar-bureaucrats.Besides,he brought forward the spirit-resonance theory,the earliest and relatively mature painting theory in ancient China which had already touched upon the artistic laws of Chinese paintings,exerting far-reaching influence on posterity.Later on,he transferred from the realm of Chinese figure painting to that of landscape painting,flower-and-bird painting,etc.His theories had always been pushing forward the development of Chinese painting in successive dynasties,and accelerating the formation of the unique style of traditional Chinese painting,which raised the curtain on the painting theory of Chinese literati.