The Artistic Style of Badashanren's(Zhu Da) Flower-and-bird Paintings and Landscape Paintings

During the atmosphere of laying more stress on the past than on the present in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty,Badashanren(Zhu Da,1626-1705),though familiar with Buddhism and Taoism,pursued an art road of respecting and surpassing the traditions,taking in everything,not like Shi Tao who want to be unique way of painting to subvert the traditions.His artistic style is a harmonious blend of the past and nature by learning others,that is to say,it is changes.His art showed so good workmanship that nobody knows he inherited whose painter's style and he created his own——his unique style.