China Traditional Culture and the Content of Painting

Chinese painting, referred to as "Chinese painting" for short, is painted on special Xuan paper or silk with brush, ink and Chinese painting pigments. The subject matter is mainly figures, landscapes and flowers and birds, and the techniques are divided into pen and freehand brushwork, which are full of traditional characteristics. Chinese painting can be divided into figure painting, landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting.

1, figure painting

China figure painting has a long history. According to records, there were murals in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty specializes in figure painting, and China's painting is the first one in the world to put forward the idea of "writing God with form". Yan was also good at figure painting in Tang Dynasty. And Wu Daozi, Han Wo and so on. He has made outstanding contributions to figure painting. After the Tang Dynasty, there were many painters who painted figure paintings, and there were all previous dynasties.

In order to draw a good figure painting, we should not only inherit the tradition, but also understand and study the basic shape, proportion, anatomical structure and the changing law of human movement, so as to accurately shape and express the shape and spirit of the figure. There are several ways to express characters, each with its own advantages, such as line drawing, cross filling, ink splashing, cross dyeing and so on.

2. Landscape painting

Landscape painting (commonly known as landscape painting, landscape painting or ink painting) is a specialized art discipline with a long history. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been famous painters in each period, who specialize in landscape painting. Although their life experiences, qualities, schools and methods are different; But everyone can use pen and ink, color, skill, flexible operation and detailed description. This is the beauty of natural scenery, jumping on paper with joy, buying the same, majestic and elegant.

The composition of landscape painting includes: mountains, water, rocks, trees, houses, houses, terraces, boats, bridges, wind, rain, cloudy, sunny, snow, sun, clouds, fog and the climatic characteristics of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

3. Flower and bird painting

China's flower-and-bird paintings are colorful and fascinating. It ranks alongside landscape painting and figure painting as a special subject of painting art in China. Flower-and-bird painting in a broad sense should include flowers and birds, animals, insects, fish and so on.

Insects can also be divided into work and writing. The expression methods are: line drawing (also known as double hook), sketching, filling, deboning, splashing ink and so on. Like mountains and rivers, he has a long history. The learning steps of flower-and-bird painting are nothing more than copying, sketching and creating. Themes are: bamboo, orchid, plum, chrysanthemum, peony, lotus and so on. Birds are: chicken, goose, duck, crane, cuckoo, kingfisher, magpie and eagle; Insects include parrots, butterflies, phoenixes, dragonflies and cicadas, while miscellaneous insects include slugs, crickets, ants, snails and spiders.