Abstract

In this paper, for classical scholars are engaged in poetry, calligraphy and painting of the elegant affairs, which are inherent in the "Category" and "Arts territory" issue of aesthetics to rethink its meaning. First, reflect on "literati painting" category defined methodological significance of the problem, followed by review and analysis of early 20th century, the "literati painting" value of the controversy, pointing out that during the addition involves innovation with traditional dispute, more on the "literati" a speech proper sense as a category of dispute, even involving "literary" as its hidden behind the arts of "art" connotation of the concept of war regardless, including social function, human values, the meaning of existence. The third of "literati painting" as the historical context of arts and culture referential problems. Review of "literati painting" is classified as a category, there is a referential, identify the specific function of real work? Whether the referential meaning of a culture classified areas? "Literati painting" a speech points to the fact that native art? Or "literati painting" is the historical context of the value of words? Finally, discussion, writing and painting areas classified the bounded domain problem, and the resulting derivative of the aesthetic category of classical literature and art throughout the problem. This paper aims to discuss the aesthetic issues of Chinese literati art activities, focusing on the aesthetic meaning of categories functioning as art-field in literati poetry and painting. The first step is to rethink the problematic in methodology to define wen ren hua [literati's painting ] as a category of Chinese art. The second step consists to review the art and literary debates, between reformists and traditionalist of the early 20th century, on the aesthetic values ​​of wen ren hua. It will clarify the connotation of wen ren hua as art category and to see how it operates behind the controversies as conceptual frames, accepted from the West. The third, the paper will examine the aesthetic meanings of wen ren hua as art category in the historical context of Chinese literati art theory, to see how the term functions as indication of artistic value, as well as reference of cultural facts. The fourth, will analyze the multiple meanings of "ut pictura poesis" in Chinese literati Art theories. The paper will point out that the specificity of wen ren hua as art consists in continuously going beyond the boundaries of given art categories, and claim that the aesthetic category of jian and yi in Chinese literati art does not function as classification of genres, but works as way to show poetry and painting as art field