From the Style of Wenxin to Being Aloof and Proud——On the Formation of the Style of Xin'an School
Xin'an School takes the Yellow Mountain,Bai Yue and mountains and rivers in Anhui as its painting objects,and artists of this school are mainly from Huizhou and with deep cultural deposits.During the early period,artistic works of Xin'an School were based on the style of Wenxin,with Ni Yunlin and Huang Gongwang being its originators and works of Jian Jiang being its summit.Consequently,the style of Xin'an School has been formed—abandoning the strong desire of participating of the Confucian School,and adopting the style of being thin and light,aloof and proud.Starting from one preface of Cheng Sui-one of the Xin'an School artists,this paper mainly discusses the formation of the Xin'an Style.