| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 藝術學研究所 === 106 === This paper mainly discusses Fa Ruo-zhen (1613-1696) and the significance and value of his works in the painting history. Based on the analysis of his painting style and related documents, the paper puts him in the specific northern cultural background of early Qing Dynasty and digs into his paintings and historical materials, in order to figure out how his unique landscape painting style is formulated.
Apart from the introduction and conclusion, the whole paper is divided into three chapters. By sorting out historical documents, the first chapter helps us to learn his lifetime experience and social connections. His official career and interpersonal friendships after the 1646 Imperial Examinations are of crucial importance to understand his whole life, in which the influence of northern collectible identification circle on him is the breakthrough point to reveal the development process of his works. In Chapter two, we analyze and figure out the origin and development of his painting style. In his early period, Fa learns from Four Yuan Masters (Yuan Si Jia 元四家) and then Tung-Chü (董巨) style which imitated directly by the northern painters. Since the middle 1670s, his works show the style and characteristics of northern painters in the period of the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty. Although some of his works resemble those painters in Nanjing and Anhui, it is farfetched to identify them as imitation. His works during this time develop mainly on his own style and finally form into a unique powerful and singular style in the middle 1680s. In Chapter three, through analyzing the evaluation of the “qi” of his works by the later generations, we will find out how his unique aesthetic style is embodied in his works. Besides, it distinguishes from the south painters as it is actually nourished and bred by the northern culture. To conclude, Fa Ruo-zhen’s landscape paintings have no political intention, but are purely the result of the cultural influence at that time as well as the natural evolution of his own painting style.
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