The art of landscape painting involves a coherent chain of development and transformation between individual self-awareness and the construction of a scholar's emotions. These paintings directly explore personal consciousness and expressing personal emotions. The main themes depicted in seasonal landscape paintings are seclusion and travel. The relationship between scholars’ self-awareness, landscape painting portrayal and the emergence of literature is explored by analysing the emotional states and life interests inherent in the composition of these two themes of landscape painting. The connection between changes in landscape painting themes and the emotional content carried by scholars, as well as the relationship between seasonal development in landscape paintings and scholars’ literary explorations and poetic expressions, is discussed. Consequently, the themes of seclusion and travel contain contemplation of life and aesthetic interests, revealing connections between these themes, scholarly pursuits, and the unity of poetry and painting.
Chunyang Li is a Lecturer at the College of Art, South China Agricultural University, a PhD, a postgraduate supervisor, and a postdoctoral researcher at Beijing Normal University. His research interests include literature and art theory, and modern history research. E-mail: lcy537@126.com
Ziliang Guo is the corresponding author of this article. He is a Lecturer, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, MS. His research interests include historical heritage protection and cultural inheritance research. E-mail: 704551402@163.com
Yuan Ou is a graduate student, College of Art, South China Agricultural University. Her research interests include visual communication design. E-mail: nora3134@163.com