| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 藝術研究所美術組碩士在職專班 === 92 === Out of a wish and duty, I will compose this paper in a pious mind. On one hand I will take this as an opportunity to learn; on the second hand I will use this paper to show my greatest reverence for Grand Teacher Pu, to thank him for inspiring me in art and culture and, most important of all, to make him better known to the people.
The introduction, which is to explain the research motive and purpose, and the method to be adopted.
Chapter one will introduce the life experience of Mr. Pu, who, born in a royal family of the Qing Dynasty, later experienced the vicissitudes of both family and nation, and always lived a vagrant and restless life. This particular background had a decisive influence upon the formation of his art of calligraphy and painting, which is necessary to introduce here.
The second chapter will introduce the life of Mr. Pu. During his entire life, Mr. Pu had experienced a lot of the chaos of our state. Most of his life was spent in a state of vagrancy and restlessness, so traveling, finding a job, making friends, taking refuge, composing and teaching, etc. were interwoven in his life. His life can be divided into two periods: during his early life on the Mainland he had met with social chaos, so he dedicated himself to better his calligraphy, painting, and composition of poetry and essays. Later compelled by hardships, he went to teach in Peiping College of Art; then he began to have contact with the outside, beginning to make friends and participating in their activities. After coming to Taiwan across the sea, he refused to involve himself in politics. In order to sustain his life he began to accept apprentices and teach them to paint, engaged in the teaching work that would bring him a simple but happy life. Since he was so renowned, he had been invited to give lectures in Japan and South Korea, to hold picture shows in Thailand and Hong Kong, and to teach in the Art Department of Taiwan National Normal University, the position held by him until he died of cancer. During his teaching hours, he devoted his whole heart to his teaching work and he composed the greater part of his works of calligraphy and painting, making the greatest contribution of his life.
The third chapter will discuss Mr. Pu’s achievements in the art of painting and calligraphy and that is the center of gravity of this research. His calligraphy art is concerned, we will probe into his conception of calligraphy art and achievements in all styles of handwriting. Moreover, as his painting art is concerned, we will probe into how his painting style is rooted in and has benefited from his calligraphy. He began his studies by copying ancient pictures, so we will discuss the source of painting he has inherited from several ancient paintings copied by him.
The fourth chapter will discuss the art thought of Mr. Pu. His artistic thought is the literati aesthetic thought that combines Jing, poetry, calligraphy, and painting.
The fifth chapter will discuss the effects of Mr. Pu’s artistic achievements on the next generation. Among his numerous pupils, Wu, Yung-Hsiung and Chiang, Chao-Shen especially inherited Mr. Pu’s spirit of literati painting, which still has a profound influence upon contemporary painting in Taiwan. In the education carried out in colleges or departments of fine arts, his influence is also very broad, as represented by one of his pupils, Professor Chen, Shan-Hsi.
The sixth chapter will be the conclusion.His work, styled with age-old and concise features, also can be honored in the palace of unusual styles and so form the basis of an independent school. Mr. Pu has laid the solid foundation of a profoundly beautiful environment for the modern history of art, fully demonstrating his style of combining poetry, calligraphy and painting into one. “His painting method is connected with his poetry and essays and no painting is created without the air of cultivated refinement, is really a comprehensive judgment of Mr Pu’s art. The direction of future research and my wishes are to further promote the appreciation of “the elegant style of the literati painting”, deepen and broaden people’s appreciation of Mr. Pu’s works, expect novices in the painting field to be able to understand and appreciate art from the perspective of intellectuality and reason, so they may improve their personal aesthetic qualities and profoundly sense the significance and value of Mr. Pu’s artistic creation.
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