A Study on the Image of the Splashed Ink and Color Landscape Painting by Chang Dai-Chien

The splashed ink and color landscape painting was created by Chang Dai-Chien(1899-1983) in his latter days to summarize his art life. This paper studied the ‘image’ revealed in the Splashed Ink and Color Landscape Painting presented by Chang in his latter days. Overall, the ‘images’ expressed by Chang can be induced as follows. First, Snow Mountains in Switzerland, created in 1965, showed the ‘combination of specific image and abstract image.’ Second, the ‘formation of aesthetic effects of contrast and combination.’ Chang created a ‘new technique’ surpassing the ancient artists by exhibiting his unique ‘eloquence’ in Aafchen See, created in 1968. Third, by expressing his uniquely splashed ink and color summarizing the ‘combination of specific image and abstract image’ and the ‘formation of aesthetic effects of contrast and combination’ in Panorama of Mount Lu, known as his ‘last work,’ Chang showed an ‘image’ representing the character of ‘abstract ink painting’ with more Chinese features. Such ‘creative images’ of Chang Dai-Chien suggest that the exploration of traditional Chinese philosophies and aesthetics must be accumulated before studying its old techniques.