Brief introduction of Chinese painting
Chinese painting, referred to as "Chinese painting". Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, which uses brush strokes dipped in water, ink and color on silk or paper. Tools and materials include brush, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. From the perspective of art history, the capitals before the Republic of China were collectively called ancient paintings.
Traditional Chinese painting has no clear name in ancient times, and it is generally called Danqing, which has its own system in the world art field. Chinese painting, as one of the four major arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, embodies the ancient people's understanding of nature, society, politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and nature.
Second, painting tools
Chinese painting has obvious characteristics. Chinese painting, according to the ancient paintings of Sheikh in the Southern Dynasties, comments: Pay attention to "vivid charm", not stick to the similarity of objects and images, but emphasize the expression of the author's subjective interest. Chinese painting emphasizes "expressive form" and pursues a feeling that "beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity".
Pay attention to the charm of pen and ink, and the requirements for brushwork are: flat, round, staying, heavy and changeable. Ink method requires ink to be divided into five colors, coke, thick, heavy, light and clear; Pay attention to the "brushwork method", not to the focus perspective, and not to the influence of the environment on the light color change of the object; Pay attention to the blank layout and the "momentum" of the object.
Compared with foreign painting, it can be said that western painting is an art of "reappearance" and Chinese painting is an art of "expression". Chinese painting is to express "verve" and "realm".
Traditional Chinese painting theme
First, figure painting
China figure painting has a long history. According to records, there were murals in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gu Kaizhi devoted himself to figure painting. He was the first painter in China's painting history who explicitly put forward the idea of depicting the gods with form. Yan was also good at figure painting in Tang Dynasty. And Wu Daozi, Han Wo and so on. He has made great contributions to figure painting. After the Tang Dynasty, there were many painters who painted figure paintings, and there were all previous dynasties.
Second, landscape painting
Landscape painting (commonly known as landscape painting and landscape painting) is a specialized art discipline with a long history. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been famous painters in each period, who specialize in landscape painting. Although their life experiences, qualities, schools and methods are different; However, everyone can use pen and ink, color, ingenuity, flexible management and meticulous description. This is the beauty of natural scenery, which is cheerfully on paper, but actually the same, magnificent and elegant.
Third, flower and bird painting
China's flower-and-bird paintings are colorful and fascinating. It ranks alongside landscape painting and figure painting as a special subject of painting art in China. Flower-and-bird painting in a broad sense should include flowers and birds, animals, insects, fish and so on.