Chinese traditional landscape painting characteristics

The characteristics of traditional Chinese landscape painting are as follows:

1. There are levels of distance and nearness. Landscape painting picture has three levels: far, middle and near. The distant peaks, mountains, and clouds are smaller, the near objects are larger, and the middle part bridges the front and back layers, creating a sense of hierarchy.

2. Far-reaching mood. Landscape painting emphasizes the beauty of nature and expresses people's feelings of reverence and awe for primitive nature. Landscape painting is not only a means of expression, but also an embodiment of a sense of life, a crystallization of Chinese cultural history and the spirit of the ancestors.

3. "Writing" is the main focus. Landscape painting emphasizes "writing", the pursuit of the real and the imaginary, the image of the object, the idea of the form, focusing on the freedom of ink and brush and change, with a high artistic value and aesthetic ability.

4. The colors are fresh and natural. Landscape paintings usually use the expressive power of colors, focusing on the scenery and weather of nature with techniques such as drowning and dyeing in green, red, black, white and various ink marks.

5. Intuitive expression. Landscape painting generally does not need too many words to express, it advocates the statement of enjoyment of an intuitive language, that is, the painter in one fell swoop, with the power of the brush and rhyme to express the artistic emotions, so that the viewer can feel his heart and realm.

Definition and Development of Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting

Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting is a form of painting in the field of ancient Chinese art, which depicts natural landscape scenes as its main content, and which prominently condenses and expresses traditional Chinese aesthetic concepts and cultural connotations. Landscape painting has a long history of development in Chinese history, the earliest seen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and other generations of creation and development, formed its own unique style and aesthetic characteristics. It is widely presented in various art forms such as murals, wood carvings, cloth and so on.

The development of traditional Chinese landscape painting began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when artists such as Sun Jiuting and Gu Kaizhi were influenced by the "Collection of the Despicable Palace" and began to depict landscapes. These early landscape paintings were based on the ancient style of the pre-Song Dynasty, and mainly depicted natural scenes, with black and white ink rendering in a simple form.

With the more prosperous cultural atmosphere of the Tang and Song dynasties, the creation of landscape paintings entered a more mature stage, with a wider range of forms and subject matter, expressing the great rivers and mountains as if the sun was rising in the east, and at the same time expressing more personal emotions, the works inspired the viewer's feelings and associations. The masterpieces of landscape painting in the Ming and Qing dynasties include Wen Zhengming's "Ink Landscape", Qiu Ying's "Wonders of Ying", and Zheng Banqiao's "Picturesque Mountains and Rivers".