This study discusses the issues of modern ink painting creations and the development of traditional ink painting, starting from the author’s own understanding of natural aesthetics in Lao Zhuang’s Daoism, and examining creations according to the relationship between man and nature in Daoist view of nature and the characteristics of critical thinking. This study also reveals the author’s understanding of the correlation between the author’s own creation and Daoist natural aesthetic thinking. The relationship of modern ink painting creations and natural beauty functions as inspiration and reference to the author’s own creations. The author’s creation method expands into different ways under the light of Daoist natural aesthetics.
The author use non-traditional brush and ink expression method of literati painting to interpret the abstraction of the landscapes. Connecting modern ink painting and Daoist natural aesthetics to serve as the link between the past and the future development. Inspired by the ideology of modern ink painting development, this thesis discuss the historical contents of natural aesthetics development, the historical background of rubbing development and the history of non-literati thinking on brush and ink , as well as the functions and meanings in the rubbing skills which senior ink painting forerunners have adopted as new ink painting skills. The author use rubbing skills to form the images of human body elements in order to present the expression of abstract landscape, which is the echoing relationship between inner structure and function of human and nature, and the reflection of Dao pursuit of and nature in cultural.
The pursuit of the natural style of painting is the natural aesthetic characteristic of “Dao follows nature.” Discussing Lao Zhuang’s natural aesthetic thoughts through my own creative idea, in order to understand the importance of the natural aesthetic characteristics “Dao follows nature” in art creation, and developing the author’s own ideas in art creation are the meanings and values of exploring modern ink painting creations.