The "Humanization" of Landscape and the "Imaginary Body" of Man in Northern Song Landscape Paintings --The Pine Tree as a Path of Interpretation
Abstract
This paper takes the pine tree in Northern Song landscape painting as the core research object, based on the social and cultural foundation, the influence of painting technique innovation and rational spirit, and combining the style characteristics of the Northern Landscape School and the Southern Landscape School, it builds the analytical framework of the pine tree as the symbolic aesthetic object of humanized landscape and the carrier of the human virtual body and spirit. Through analyzing the visual interaction mechanism of the pine tree's natural attributes with rocks, clouds, water, grass and trees, and exploring the deep connection between its spatial location and the four seasons scene, we explain the role of the pine tree in the aesthetic of the "Three Distances" to promote the extension of perspectives. From the perspective of embodied aesthetics, it reveals the path by which the pine tree guides the viewer to sublimate from physical perception to spiritual transcendence, and ultimately demonstrates the aesthetic way by which the humanized landscape and human embodiment in Northern Song landscapes generate each other. The pine tree is the core hub connecting the spatial construction, physical perception and aesthetic spirit of Northern Song landscape painting, with irreplaceable structural value and archetypal significance.
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