What is a workhorse heavy color? To detailed answer.

Working brush and heavy color: refers to the art of painting that is neat and fine and laying heavy color (mainly mineral color). In the early history of Chinese painting, brushwork held an important position. So far, many unearthed murals and paintings on silk from the tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties, the murals of the Yongle Palace of the Yuan Dynasty, the murals of the Fahai Temple of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, and a large number of heavy-colored murals in Dunhuang are all outstanding examples of heavy-colored paintings. In addition, the painting on silk found in the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province is said to be the earliest piece of brushwork and heavy-color religious ritual paintings found in China, with ingenious composition, fine line drawing and brilliant coloring, which shows that the brushwork and heavy-color painting techniques had reached a very mature stage. Scroll paintings are even more colorful, Sui Dynasty Zhan Ziqi's "Spring Tour" is a very typical brushwork heavy color green landscape, the Tang Dynasty's "Hairpin Ladies", the Song Dynasty's bird and flower albums, Huang Chyuan and other brushwork works are all very wonderful. The works of the great figures of the old generation of modern painters: Liu Lingcang, Huang Jun, Ren Ruying, Wang Shuhui, Pan Jiezi, etc.; and the great bird and flower painters: Yu Fei'an, Yu Zhizhen, and Tian Shiguang, etc. are all classics.