His pastoral poems are mainly about his leisurely life and landscape in seclusion in the south and Wangchuan. Wang Shi's artistic achievements are very high. Whether it's a magnificent sight, such as "the desert is lonely and the long river sets the yen" or a subtle natural state, such as "moonlight in its groves of pine, stones of crystal in its brooks", he can grasp the colors, sounds and dynamics of nature, or sketch or depict it, with ease and unique artistic conception. The reason why his pastoral landscape poems can achieve high success is that he can integrate poetry and painting. Su Shi said in Shu Mo Jie Lan Tian's misty rain map: "There are pictures in poems that taste clean;" Observe the clean painting, and there are poems in the painting. " His evaluation highly summarizes Wang Wei's artistic characteristics of combining poetry and painting. The organic combination of poetry and painting is the aesthetic ideal and standard of China's traditional aesthetics, that is, the so-called "poetry is said to be good with picturesque scenery, and painting is poetic". Wang Wei inherited and developed China's traditional aesthetic thought, thus becoming a pioneering model of combining poetry and painting. He's "the best in writing and painting" (Pure Complete Works). "Poetic Turtle" compares his achievements in poetry and painting with those of Du Fu and Gu Kaizhi, saying: "Gu Chang is good at painting but not poetry, and Du Zimei is good at painting but not painting. Those who are calm between the two sons, Wang Youcheng also. " In fact, Wang Wei is not only good at writing poems and painting, but also proficient in melody. It is his extensive interests and profound artistic accomplishment that make him a famous poet. Du Fu once expressed his admiration for him with "the most beautiful sentence" ("Relieve boredom"). Wang Wei's poems are very distinctive. Yin Kun, a contemporary of him, said in "The Collection of Heyue Yingling": "Uygur poems are elegant and elegant, with new ideas and reasonable ideas, and they are pearls in the spring and painted on the wall", which has already pointed out that his poems are rich in painting. The ancients summarized the artistic characteristics of Wang's poems: there are paintings in poems and poems in paintings. The framing of his poems is quite ingenious, and the colors of the pictures are often set off in shades, which is reflected in his collection of Wangchuan.
The color tone in Wang Wei's later poems is obviously different from that in his earlier works, and the warm tone is cold. The reason is that after Zhang Jiuling was demoted, Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and other villains monopolized power, and the politics of the Tang Dynasty became increasingly dark. Wang Wei did not want to go along with the flow and was unable to resist, so he had to take the road of passive escape and live a life of "roaring the mountains, eating fast and serving the Buddha" from then on. Therefore, in his later poems, cool colors are often obviously rendered. For example, the poem "Shu Shi" says: "The pavilion is light and rainy, and the courtyard is open in the daytime", and the poem reveals the author's gloomy and narrow mood at the beginning. "Light rain" and "deep courtyard" are gray and dark colors, and another example is: "I have a white cloud heart with my eyes open to you" ("For Wei Mu"), "When I look back on the lake, the green hills roll with white clouds.