Briefly describe what is Chinese painting, why is Chinese painting, and what are the characteristics

Chinese painting is a general term for traditional Chinese national painting, also known as Chinese painting or ink painting. It is a unique painting with national characteristics with ink as the main pigment, water as the blending agent, brush as the main tool, and rice paper and silk silk as the carrier. It is rooted in the rich cultural fertile soil of China, leaps through different time and space, and has gone through many different stages of germination, development, maturity, innovation and redevelopment, forming a complete art system that integrates national cultural literacy, way of thinking, aesthetic consciousness and philosophical concepts.

It forms two artistic peaks that stand side by side with Western oil painting.

The history of Chinese painting is very long.

The patterns and decorations on the colored pottery in the Yangshao culture are the earliest painting art of our ancestors so far, more than 6,000 years ago. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it developed into silk painting, and Indian Buddhist painting in the Han Dynasty was also introduced to China, and developed rapidly, with a large number of exquisite murals, such as Dunhuang cave art. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, freehand landscape painting developed, and landscapes, flowers and birds began to be used as an independent painting discipline.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, "boundary painting" was produced, genre painting flourished, and ink landscape painting also developed greatly. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a large number of painting schools, such as the "Zhejiang School" and the "Wumen School", emerged to promote the further development of Chinese painting. In the modern period, there were many outstanding painters, such as Huang Binhong, Wu Changshun, Qi Baishi, Feng Zikai and others, who promoted the innovation and development of Chinese painting.

Throughout the development of Chinese painting, we can see that Chinese painting has developed step by step in the accumulation of history, and has integrated foreign art and culture, constantly bringing forth the new, and becoming more and more mature.

The outstanding contribution of Chinese painting in the field of world painting and culture is created step by step by our predecessors, and understanding the development of Chinese painting is an indispensable part of appreciating Chinese painting.

2 Types of Chinese Painting.

According to the creative ideas and aesthetic tastes, it can be divided into literati paintings, court paintings and folk paintings.

Literati painting is a special name in the history of Chinese painting, also known as "scholar Jiayi painting".

Using the bookish atmosphere as a criterion for evaluating paintings, it means poetic painting or poetic volume. Most of his works are based on landscapes, ancient trees, bamboos and stones, flowers and birds. The expression techniques are mostly ink or freehand writing.

Its representative figures include Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, Ni Yunlin of the Yuan Dynasty, Dong Qichang of the Ming Dynasty, Bada Shanren of the Qing Dynasty, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo, etc. Most of their paintings are pursued, and there are poems in the paintings, and there are paintings in the poems. After painting, most of them inscribe poems in the paintings, or use poems to paint, so they express the meaning of the painting and also express the poetry with the painting.

It is called poetic.

Court paintings. Tang Dynasty Zhou Fang's "Hairpin Lady" part).

The Tang Dynasty in our country has set up Xu Zhao, worship and so on. During the Five Dynasties, Western Shu and Southern Tang Dynasty set up painting academies. In the Song Dynasty, the Hanlin Painting Institute was set up to select outstanding painters to serve the royal court.

The landscapes, flowers, birds, and figures painted in the painting academies of the past dynasties are mostly required to be colorless with brushes, neat and meticulous, magnificent, rigorous in composition, brilliant in color, and some have strong decoration, which is called courtyard painting.

1. Chinese painting is also known as "Chinese painting". It is created in accordance with the unique aesthetic trend of the Chinese nation and the resulting artistic techniques.

2. Chinese painting has specific tools: First of all, Chinese painting has specific materials and tools. The brush, ink, paper, and inkstone used in Chinese painting, the four treasures of the study have been continuously refined and complete through the efforts of several generations of working people and literati, and can be used harmoniously and perfectly

If you want to complete a Chinese painting, you need not only different kinds of soft and strong brushes, high-gloss and specially developed ink, a wide variety of soft rice paper, and rich and long-lasting minerals. Therefore, the materials and tools of Chinese painting have a wide range of use, high dissemination, national characteristics, and strong vitality.

3. Strong Chinese brush and ink skills: Chinese brush and ink techniques are meticulous, the brush and painting of Chinese painting are inseparable, the brushwork is rich, and it takes many years of practice, and the rich brush and ink techniques pursue continuous innovation and personalized performance in the form of painting. For example:

Rendering the overall color of the whole color; Partial re-coloring of overlays; Spot brightening, small area deepening staining; Baking and dyeing of objects with light colors; Handle spotting of backgrounds and small objects. As an artistic expression technique of Chinese painting, brush and ink optimize the details of the parts and make the whole more complete and artistic. As the "cornerstone" of Chinese painting, the brush and ink technique reflects the importance of Chinese painting to technique and detail in every stroke and stroke.

Whether it is the rigidity and softness of the calligraphy pen, the change of speed and slowness, or the pursuit of dry, wet, thick, light, heavy, burnt, dry and moist ink brush. All of them embody a good Chinese painting, and every stroke, every stroke, every line, and every piece of ink in the whole and parts pay attention to painting skills.

4. The artistic conception pursued by Chinese painting is elegant: throughout the history of the development of Chinese dialect, the Taoist thought of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Song and Ming dynasties have been developed, and the Laozhuang philosophy of the unity of nature and man has become the mainstream of society. These full philosophical connotations make Chinese painting not only limited to painting, but also expresses its own philosophical pursuit and self-realm, from objective depiction to spiritual realm and elegant luck.

The artistic conception of emptiness and mystery is not constrained by light and shadow, but is bounded by lines, cutting out the complicated and simplifying, so that people have rich associations and wander away from the artistic conception.

5. The connotation and artistic conception of Chinese painting: Chinese painting has a special way of expressing its ideological connotation, such as simplifying the complex and leaving blank space.

Painters can inject their own rich thoughts and feelings into their brushwork. Through bold and intentional writing, such as birds and fish that look at the sky with white eyes, elegant and thin plums, orchids, bamboos, chrysanthemums, flowers and branches, to imply their own lofty and inaction. Through the tranquil brushwork, the scenery is endowed with different ideological connotations, such as:

Landscape shows the reality of the times, painting bamboo is pure and proud, painting plum shows arrogance, painting peony shows strong vitality, etc.

A brief description of the characteristics of Chinese painting is as follows:

1. One of the characteristics of Chinese painting is that it is to give up the form and enjoy the shadow, that is, to grasp the object from the revelation of the projection. Gu An, a painter in the Yuan Dynasty, was good at painting bamboo, and said that he was inspired by the Tang Dynasty painter Xiao Yue's observation of bamboo shadows on the wall. There are many records in history that are drawing shadows, not shapes.

2. Another characteristic of Chinese painting is stylization. The images of Chinese painting are stylized, symbols corresponding to the image, not truthful descriptions. Mr. Wen Yiduo once said that Chinese painting is suggestive, and the purpose can be achieved through the understanding, such as painting the bamboo year and the wild collapse from the program, the program is used, and the program is modified into its own vocabulary, which has its own characteristics.

On the one hand, the formation of the Chinese painting program is the schema of the corresponding object, and on the other hand, it is operated according to a certain program.

3. Another characteristic of Chinese painting is the creation of Ori - bold imagination and transformation. Ori Ming created for the Northern Song Dynasty Hu Yuan Shen Kuo said, that is, to boldly imagine and transform.

Expansion of the importance of Chinese painting:

Chinese painting is a concentrated embodiment of Chinese culture, aesthetic thought and philosophical concepts. Chinese painting has a long history, has brilliant artistic achievements, has a unique aesthetic very modeling way, is the concentrated embodiment of Chinese culture, aesthetic thinking, philosophical concepts, its history it began in prehistoric art, China is one of the birthplaces of mankind.