Deng Yizhe is an important founder of modern Chinese aesthetics and art

and his theoretical contribution lies in his research on Chinese painting aesthetics. His research focuses on subject-object integration and constructs the theoretical system of Chinese painting aesthetics through exploring the composition of object

the composition of subject and the isomorphic composition of both object and subject in Chinese paintings. In the final analysis

a relatively complete outline of Deng Yizhe's theoretical system of Chinese painting aesthetics

as well as its basic principles and fundamental spirit

is to show that the integrated relationship between subject and object with their isomorphic composition is embodied in the process of creation

appreciation and historical development. The significance of the construction of Deng Yizhe's systematic aesthetic thought of Chinese painting shows that the "systemic" issue in the theoretical form of Chinese painting

which is "loose in form but unified in spirit"

is a modern issue.