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26 September 2025

“Moving Thoughts” and “Wonderful”: A Textual Research on the Blending Mechanism of Subject and Object in Gu Kaizhi’s Artistic Thinking

Yujie Zhu1
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1 Hanjiang Normal University, Shiyan 442000, Hubei, China
CEF 2025 , 3(8), 113–118; https://doi.org/10.18063/CEF.v3i8.889
© 2025 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Gu Kaizhi plays an important role in the history of Chinese painting, and is praised as “Three Wonders” by contemporary people. Among them, figure painting is the most outstanding. Gu Kaizhi has profound and comprehensive cultural and artistic attainments, and has made remarkable achievements in aesthetic theory. “Fantasy” has become the core proposition of his painting theory and artistic creation idea, which not only makes a classic judgment for the development of China’s painting aesthetics, but also reveals the whole process of artistic creation. How does the creator interact and link with the real world, through the blending and meeting between the subject and the object, so as to show the emotions and thoughts contained in it incisively and vividly, and show the author’s subjective image by depicting the characters.

Keywords
Gu Kaizhi’s works
Artistic thinking
Blending mechanism of subject and object
On the wonderful idea of migration
Funding
Teaching Reform Research Project of Hanjiang Normal University: Exploration of Innovative Teaching Paths for Chinese Painting Courses in the Digital Age (Project No.: 2024B08).
References

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[2] Liu N, 2023, Re-examination of the Ideological Origins of Gu Kaizhi’s “Fantastic Thoughts” and “Vivid Portrayal”. Journal of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, 2023(02): 40–42.

[3] Liu J, 2023, Body Subject and Thinking in Images: An Analysis of Gu Kaizhi’s Body Aesthetic Thought of “Thinking Wonderfully”. Art Education Research, 2023(06): 39–41.

[4] Li M, 2022, Analysis of Gu Kaizhi’s Theory of Form and Spirit. Beauty and Times (Middle), 2022(01): 14–16.

[5] Diaoweng, 2022, Thinking Is as Wonderful as Gossamer. Children’s Chinese Studies, 2022(01): 26–27.

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