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In the age when the Yuan Dynasty was under the rule of the Mongolian
nationality,the intellectuals of the Hun nationality felt a heavy
psychological blow.This was something thatwent without saything.Therefore,the
trend of hermitage and ease seeking came to be in great vogue,promoting
the landscape painting to be turned into articles for diversion for
the sake of experssing their mood and indulging in self-admiration.
The
special features of literati paintings were that likeness in spirit
is better than likeness in form,pen and ink work excels mouding,and
the chief thing is concept,with the pictures only for self amusement.NiZan
even put likeness in form at a place of no importance at all,which
mirrored the attitude of literati paintings as something to suit
their dispositions and to enjoy themselves with True,the influence
of calligraphy on painting had long been at work,but those who clearly
pointed out and self-consciously utilized it were the scholar painters
of the Yuan Dynasty.They introduced calligraphy into pictures,causing
painting to become more equipped with the nature of script writhing,the
inking and the strokes to roam inside and outside the images,and
the subjective will power of the painters of the painters to tend
to come to the surface.In fact,the Yuan Dynasty paintings lay stress
on conception.Besides the conception on the face of the pictures,they
also contained the conception in between the inking and the strokes,which,when
becoming the objects of aesthetic apperciation themselves,would endow
paintings and independent nature in the true sense of the word.
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