Abstract: The Northern Song Dynasty was a peak in the development history of Chinese landscape painting, inheriting the development of painting in the Wei, Jin, and Sui and Tang dynasties. With the extensive recruitment of talent from the Song Dynasty Academy of Painting and the background of the three major landscape painters of the Northern Song Dynasty, the book “Lin Quan Gao Zhi” was created. It was compiled by Guo Xi and his son Guo Si, and mainly reflects the painting experience and artistic cultivation of the painter and painting theorist Guo Xi. This book had a great impact on the development of painting in the Northern Song Dynasty and later generations, and it can be said that the author, Guo Xi, was an important painter who connected the past and the future. The article takes “The High Elegance of Forest and Spring” as the starting point, based on his paintings, and starts with Guo Xi’s life and the close relationship between Taoism and Confucianism; Secondly, through the analysis of the atmosphere of the painting“High Elegance in Forest and Spring”, we can see the aesthetic connotations of Guo Xi from the perspective of “the heart of forest and spring”. In addition, the layout of Guo Xis works explains how his aesthetic ideas are reflected in his artistic works; Finally, it clarifies the research value of his painting ideas in artistic conception and composition for the Northern Song Dynasty and later generations.
Abstract: The Northern Song Dynasty was a peak in the development history of Chinese landscape painting, inheriting the development of painting in the Wei, Jin, and Sui and Tang dynasties. With the extensive recruitment of talent from the Song Dynasty Academy of Painting and the background of the three major landscape painters of the Northern Song Dynasty, the book “Lin Quan Gao Zhi” was created. It was compiled by Guo Xi and his son Guo Si, and mainly reflects the painting experience and artistic cultivation of the painter and painting theorist Guo Xi. This book had a great impact on the development of painting in the Northern Song Dynasty and later generations, and it can be said that the author, Guo Xi, was an important painter who connected the past and the future. The article takes “The High Elegance of Forest and Spring” as the starting point, based on his paintings, and starts with Guo Xi’s life and the close relationship between Taoism and Confucianism; Secondly, through the analysis of the atmosphere of the painting“High Elegance in Forest and Spring”, we can see the aesthetic connotations of Guo Xi from the perspective of “the heart of forest and spring”. In addition, the layout of Guo Xis works explains how his aesthetic ideas are reflected in his artistic works; Finally, it clarifies the research value of his painting ideas in artistic conception and composition for the Northern Song Dynasty and later generations.