Who knows the history and current situation of Chinese watercolor painting

1, Liu Yi. Liu Yi was born in Shanghai in 1958 and is currently the vice president of the Art and Design Institute of Shanghai Institute of Technology, and a watercolor gouache painting of the Shanghai Artists Association.

Deputy Director of the Art Committee, Contemporary Chinese Watercolor Painting.

He was a powerful painter and a messenger of watercolor painting.

2, Liu Yunsheng.

He was born in Laizhou City, Shandong Province in 1937.

He graduated from Shandong Art Institute in 1963.

He is an influential painter in China and a national first-class artist.

3, Guan Weixing.

Born in 1940 in Dunhua County, Jilin Province, China.

He is known as the "unrivaled master of Asian watercolor".

Features of Liu Yi's paintings:

Liu Yi said: "Watercolor is an art style that always runs through the element of chance and is full of aura, and it is also an art form that shows the painter's ability to synthesize and control the picture. Because of this, for more than 20 years, I have been fascinated by its content and charm. ”

Liu Yi uses watercolors to show the style of a ballet girl and convey the classic charm; Use watercolor to express national customs and interpret the sound of nature.

Paint the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River with watercolor to express the poetic ...... of the gardenThe beauty of his watercolor art is stunningly beautiful, which has aroused universal resonance inside and outside the industry, and has won dozens of awards in national exhibitions.

His watercolor paintings not only have accurate and vivid shapes, but also give full play to the painting function and connotation charm of "water" and "color". In his paintings, the water color blends, natural and smooth, the dry and wet shades are appropriate, and the degree of "mastery" can be said to be superb, thus forming his watercolor painting "simple color, light and elegant tone, beautiful and elegant", with the unique charm of Shanghai-style watercolor "wet painting method".

3,000 years ago, tempera from the Egyptian memphis era was the precursor to watercolor painting. It is a red, yellow, green, purple four-color mixed egg yolk or egg white, etc., which is rendered on the wall into an interwoven pattern. It was passed down from the Roman era to Europe, and later watercolor painting was born.

14 In the 15th century, European painters developed a kind of monochrome watercolor painting with lines as the backbone, with very few colors as the accent or only monochrome rendering, which was used as a draft and exercise in oil painting.

It was not until the last three or four hundred years that watercolor was compiled into a more orderly history. 16 In Europe in the 17th century, the Platonic ideal of beauty made painters begin to pay attention to the realistic spirit of nature, and often used landscape sketching to capture the beauty endowed by nature. Watercolor is the material that records the rapid change of inspiration and the elusive flow of atmosphere, so watercolor has gradually been used by more people through the influence of the German painter Dürer and others.

In particular, some Dutch painters in the 17th century were more committed to treating watercolor as an art on an equal footing with oil painting, and devoted themselves to studying its special techniques, which slowly spread to England, leading to the rise of British watercolor painting in the 18th century. Known as the father of British watercolor, Paul Sandby has won honor and status in the society with his unremitting work and outstanding talent, and with the strong support of the British **, he established the Royal Academy of Art to promote the development of watercolor and began to break free from the influence of the Netherlands and seek an independent style. The watercolors of France during this period were extended by their oil painting of religious iconography, unlike England, which was directly influenced by the Dutch.

French watercolor painting in the 18th century was a combination of transparent and opaque, and was formed by carrying forward the pastel illustrations and absorbing the characteristics of the English style. They focused on opaque methods such as gum watercolor, while the British generally used so-called pure transparent watercolor.

In addition, in other European countries such as Germany and Switzerland, due to the exploration of the mysteries of nature and the spirit of realism brought about by humanism, watercolor painting has gradually become popular and shows the value and charm of lightness and independence due to its own lightness and diversity.

During the period from the 18th century to the 19th century, watercolor painters have laid an independent foundation for watercolor painting after centuries of hard work, and watercolor painting can be attributed to the operation of this period. In particular, several talented British painters, such as Turner, Gerding, and Bonington, painstakingly studied and promoted the development of the characteristics of pure watercolor painting, and abandoned the more pleasing Dutch painting method. At the same time, oil painters and sculptors in Europe and the United States have devoted themselves to watercolor creation, making watercolor art increasingly vigorous.

Throughout the history of the development of watercolor painting, although it has only taken three or four hundred years before and after, it has achieved such brilliant results in such a short period of time, and its characteristics are more in line with the spirit of modern efficiency, and it will surely bring a more brilliant future to the modern art world.

The development of realist watercolor painting has a long history, dating back to the emergence of watercolor painting in England and France in the early 18th century. In the early 20th century, the rise of realism in Europe and the United States led to the further development of realist watercolor painting. In the history of art, the impact of the modernist movement on traditional art also influenced the style of watercolor painting.

In the first half of the 20th century, modernist styles such as expressionism, cubism, and futurism brought new ideas and techniques to watercolor painting, and promoted its development from depicting real subjects to a more diverse and abstract direction. Since the beginning of the 21st century, realist watercolor painting has received more and more recognition and attention around the world. Artists Lao Zener explored a variety of different materials and techniques, such as paints, watercolor pens, graphic design, etc., and incorporated modern techniques into their works, creating more diverse and innovative works.

At the same time, the style of realistic watercolor painting is also more diversified, covering a variety of themes such as depicting nature, people, landscapes, cities, etc., and the expression techniques are also very rich.

14 In the 15th century, European painters developed a kind of monochrome watercolor painting with line as the backbone, with very few colors as the background or only monochrome rendering, it was used as a draft and exercise for oil painting creation, until nearly three or four hundred years, watercolor was compiled into a more orderly history, watercolor belongs to the Western painting, however, watercolor and Chinese ink painting have a lot of natural similarities, Chinese watercolor artists to create a combination of Chinese and Western to provide a lot of national elements.