Four ways to appreciate paintings

The four methods of appreciating paintings are as follows:

One, sense appreciation.

From their own point of view, without limiting the constraints to appreciate the paintings, this way of appreciation is the most primary and most direct way. However, this way of appreciation is more suitable for the painting and expressive painting works, because this kind of works show the artist's subjective processing and emotional expression, such as impressionist oil painting, Chinese painting.

Two, form appreciation.

Form Appreciation focuses on the perception and experience of artistic language, which is simply understood as the aesthetic theory followed by painters in the construction, organization, and external expression of all kinds of objects in the picture. Formal appreciation requires a comprehensive understanding of art history as well as a broad knowledge of the use of various painting materials and tools and the painting process.

For example, the author's understanding of point, line and surface, his treatment of color and shade, and the techniques he employs. These are the core of a painter's skill practice.

Third, sociological appreciation.

Works of art is the product of the times, as the times change, artistic style is also constantly exploring new ways out, this kind of art often has a specific social imprint, such as the classical period of realistic oil paintings, these paintings can not rely on the picture effect alone, after all, most of them belong to the aristocratic portraits, historical paintings and religious paintings.

It is necessary for the appreciator to have a knowledge base of the relevant history to be able to discover the uniqueness of the work. So sociological appreciation is more professional than perceptual appreciation.

Four, comparative appreciation.

This is a comprehensive way of appreciation, not like the art exam marking as good or bad, usually take Raphael's paintings and Picasso's paintings to compare, they do not exist in their own good or bad problem. But we can through some differences, lead us to think about digging the reason behind it, or the artist's life experience, or the change of the times, or the emancipation of ideas.

Types of Paintings

1. Ink Painting

Ink Painting (Chinese Brush Painting) is a painting made by mixing water and ink after blending the consistency of the water and the ink, and it is one of the forms of paintings, and more often than not, Ink Painting is regarded as the representative of traditional Chinese paintings, that is, the national paintings. It is also referred to as national painting, Chinese painting. Basic ink painting consists only of water and ink, black and white, but advanced ink painting also includes brushwork flower and bird paintings, which are colorful.

The latter is sometimes called colored ink painting. In Chinese painting, one of the materials unique to Chinese painting, ink as the main raw material and the amount of water led to thick ink, light ink, dry ink, wet ink, burnt ink, etc., to draw different shades (black, white, gray) levels. There is a special flavor called "ink rhyme". And the formation of ink-based form of painting.

2, oil painting

Oil painting (an oil painting; a painting in oils), is to use fast-drying vegetable oils (linseed oil, poppy oil, walnut oil, etc.) and pigments, in the canvas linen, cardboard or wood on the production of a painting. The thinner used for painting is volatile turpentine and dry linseed oil.

The pigment to which the picture is attached has a strong hardness and retains its luster for a long time after the picture dries. By virtue of the covering power and transparency of the pigment performance more fully express the depiction of the object, colorful, three-dimensional texture. Oil painting is one of the main types of Western painting.

3, prints

Prints (print) is an important category of visual art. Broadly defined prints can include graphics printed before the industrialization of printing generally have the nature of prints.

The concept of contemporary printmaking mainly refers to works of art conceived and created by the artist and produced through the process of plate making and printing, specifically pictures printed after being carved or etched with a knife or chemicals on wood, stone, linen, copper, zinc and other surfaces. The art of printmaking has been technically accompanied by the invention and development of printing.

Ancient printmaking mainly refers to woodcut, but also a few copper plate engraving and overlay color leakage printing. The unique flavor of the knife and the wood flavor make it have an independent artistic value and status in the history of Chinese culture and art.

4, gouache painting

Gouache painting, is a picture depicted with water mixed with powdered pigment. Gouache color is generally opaque, has a strong ability to cover, can be deep and detailed carving. Used properly, it can combine the artistic effects of both oil painting and watercolor painting.