Monk-painter - Dan Dang's Different Kinds of Aesthetic Feelings to Landscape Painting

摘要

As a famous monk painter in late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Dan Dang kept the same fame with those famous painters as Shi Tao (a famous painter in Qing Dynasty) Badashanren - Zhu Da (a famous painter in Ming Dynasty), Kun Can (a famous painter in Qing Dynasty), Hong Ren, (a famous painter in Qing Dynasty) et. Based on ancient methods of Chinese painting, his language in landscape paintings cast his understanding of Zen Aesthetics and great beauty realm, either from the visual or the psychological aspects, which can give a person profound meanings unexpectedly and with reasonable base. Dan Dang's landscape painting aesthetic characteristics play a powerful representative Zen Chinese painting aesthetics. "No law is law" is an important characteristic of his thought bearing in his paintings, which is the embodiment of different kind of feelings of his unique aesthetic thought in Chinese paintings as the impressionistic and his artistic characteristics.