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Jingwei Han

Professor, Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University

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He advocates that we need to accurately grasp aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting and have in-depth study over traditional painting methods. In addition to traditional inheritance and knowledge, we need to understand and confirm modern value of the traditional culture in modern view, in which we search for things with features of modern art education and art practice usability, and with inspirations for reform and the revolution of art education .We could not merely imitate, copy, and extract history of traditional forms .We need to actively absorb foreign visual language research achievements, and explore, sort out, synthesize, and summarize the performance of the visual language of Chinese painting, making Chinese painting purer and have more visual tension. In the study over the transformation of Chinese painting to modern one, we propose that two aspects should be carried out: first, attention should be paid to the contemporary new ideas and new concepts, and exploration should be made for natural evolution of traditional aesthetic quality in line with aesthetic need that is more suitable to modern people; second, the study should be conducted over the expressibility of visual language which expresses Chinese painting thoroughly.