| Summary: | 碩士 === 華梵大學 === 東方人文思想研究所 === 87 === Summary
Bamboo painting is one of the most important topics that Chinese artists concern about. For a very long time, many of those have studied it. But owing to have few documents researched on the item, so there were few studies of its original. This summary is concerned about the research on the background of Tunhuang frescoes of Buddhism. Trying to find the tracks the way that bamboo paintings were drawn and compared with the bamboo paintings which were beside the two gold-copper Buddha Statues of the Wei Dynasty. And to refer to the time and the background of the interaction that the communication and the arts between China and other countries. Then to compare with the separation of bamboo in China, the art development and their mutual affections with the two sorts as well. These led to a conclusion and determined the beginning of bamboo paintings and the style of it.
Bamboo paintings were risen from the South and North Dynasties, and to inherit from the famous artists of Sui Dynasty , Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Till to the Sung Dynasty and theYuan Dynasty the skills of bamboo paintings were become perfect. Because of affections of the ideology of literati and social environments, painters chose bamboo in lyric and metaphor, the bamboo paintings were blended into Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, every bamboo painter revealed his own genre. So far the paragon of bamboo paintings was established well.
The prevalence of sticking to the old ways in the time of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty was often seen, though there were lots of bamboo paintings, some of them were master pieces, but most of them became a matter of formality. Nevertheless time changed, and many other things like ideology, economic factors and transportation played a role on the affections. Very few thinking artists tried hard to make a change of the stereotype of bamboo paintings, they wanted to innovate the skills -- drew freely and blended with the water and the black ink most beautifully. Or having a highlight of thought and expressed in writing greatly. Styles were ingenious. Generally speaking the work was only partial progress, basically they followed the ancient practices.
From the Sung Dynasty to the Manchu Dynasty, artists blended their bamboo paintings into Buddhism art. Maybe it was because Buddhism was involving in usual life deeply and felt it was natural. People did not speculate the meanings of the Buddha paintings particularly. But bamboo paintings, looked as usual, they had deep meanings indeed. There was no regret only if we studied the bamboo paintings profoundly.
Nowadays the developments of bamboo paintings last the traditional ways. Only the Ling nan school had sought the knowledge of other skills, they led the reformation; their bamboo paintings were special in forms and skills. Although they blended with the Japanese painting styles and its conception (including the transplantation of the western thought), they still remained the Chinese tradition spirits. They blended with the new and old skills deftly, poured the bamboo paintings into sense of the times and the vitality. This is worthy of the followers to imitate and to hold on.
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