Style characteristics of flower-and-bird painting in Song Dynasty

First, the secularization of flower-and-bird painting participants.

Due to the development of social productive forces, people are no longer satisfied with only engaging in heavy agricultural labor. People widely participate in the increasingly prosperous cultural market activities, and people from all walks of life love painting and participate in market transactions because of personal interests or other reasons. For example, the capital Bianliang, Dasuoguo Temple and Zisheng Temple behind the temple all opened calligraphy and painting markets. In Lin 'an, there are shops selling door gods, gods of wealth and fan paintings, on which people's life themes such as papaya and sunflower are painted, and there are also patterns showing different seasons. It can be seen that painters are not just court painters. The common people and other groups also joined the painting creation, and the identity of the painting participants was secularized.

The second is the secularization of painting objects.

Because painters have different ideas and experiences, their aesthetic tastes and styles are also different. Flower-and-bird painting mainly shows flowers, birds, fish and insects in nature, which is embodied in a fresh and elegant style. For example, the naive ape in Yi Yuanji's Gathering Apes, the frightened magpie and nervous hare in Cui Bai's Double Happiness, and the images of chickens, geese and sheep in the works of painters such as Li Di, Liu Songnian and Chen Juzhong. The object of painting has changed from golden pheasant, starling, white eagle, crane and other rare birds and animals loved by the royal family in the court to vivid images seen and heard by ordinary farmers in their production and life, which makes flower-and-bird painting popular and secular.

Artistic features of secularized flower-and-bird painting in Song Dynasty;

1, the description object chooses natural scenery, rewrites life and advocates law. For example, the Song Dynasty painter Cui Bai's "Double Happiness Map" depicts the autumn and winter seasons. The problem between a hare and two mountain magpies in the wilderness is quite interesting: two mountain magpies perch on a tree and sing.

2. Describe the life scene. The works of flower-and-bird painters in Song Dynasty mainly reflect the characteristics of social life, such as the Four Sheep Map by Chen Juzhong. This is a lively animal painting. On a very small framework, the painter chose a small scene in daily life. There are five sheep on the hillside outside the village: the shepherd in front is licking food and two white lambs are fighting. One lamb bumped into another with its head down. Another old sheep in a thick coat on the hillside is trying to stop them. There is also a goat standing on the hillside silently watching what happened to the four sheep below.