Difference between brushwork landscape and pictorial landscape?

Working brush, is the use of neat, detailed, meticulous techniques to depict the object. Work-brush is divided into two categories: work-brush white drawing and work-brush heavy color. A white brush painting is the use of ink lines to depict an object without color. Originally, white drawing was largely used for sketching, but Li Gonglin, a Song Dynasty painter, developed it into an independent type of painting, and his white drawings are like flowing clouds and water, with endless and rich variations and strong expressive power. He painted the "five horses", people and horses are outlined with a single line, accurate proportions, muscle and bone structure is clear, and even the horse's coat color has a glossy and detailed performance, dynamic and extremely vivid, is the first-class white drawing works in ancient times. Work-brush and heavy color, refers to the Chinese paintings that are neat and fine and layered with heavy colors. In the early stage of Chinese painting, the heavy color of the brushwork occupies a major position. The paintings on silk found in the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province, are all authentic brushstrokes and heavy colors, especially the T-shaped "non-clothing" in the tomb of the concubine, which is skillfully composed, finely detailed, and brilliantly colored, showing that brushstrokes and heavy colors had reached a high level of achievement at that time. Ancient paintings commonly used dansha and green and other heavy color pigments, so called painting for the "Danqing", which can be seen in the ancient paintings of the important position of the heavy color brush.

Writing painting is a kind of painting method which is opposite to brush painting. It requires the use of rough, concise brush and ink to draw the shape and spirit of the object to express the author's mood. According to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong ordered the painters Li Sixun and Wu Daozi to paint the landscape of the Jialing River together in Datong Hall. Li Sixun, who was good at heavy brushwork and coloring, took several months to complete the mural. Wu Daozi, on the other hand, painted more than 30,000 miles of Jialing landscape in one day, which is conceivable that he could not have painted it with brushwork and heavy color techniques, but must have been more rough and concise. This shows that painting at that time already had the difference between brushwork and writing. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi put forward the "scholar's painting", advocating that paintings "do not seek resemblance", but should be written to express the author's subjective thoughts and feelings. He left behind only one painting works "dead wood", painting a dead tree, a stubborn stone, stone behind the exposure of one or two branches of bamboo, a few grass under the tree. This painting expresses his ideological feelings of political displeasure, but the great calligrapher gave a very high evaluation, saying that the branches and trunks "gnarled and flexing without end", the stone "is also strange and strange, such as its chest coiled Yu also". After the Yuan Dynasty, simple brushwork, vivid modeling, hearty and interesting painting.

In this way, the writing of the painting with the observance of tradition, abide by the law of the brush painting formed a very different style of the two schools, long-term in the painting world to compete with each other, passed down from generation to generation.