Appreciation of China's Traditional Painting

19 1 1 China fine arts since the Revolution of 1911. Compared with ancient art, its social and cultural environment, object and author, category and form, nature and status have all undergone profound changes. Just as the whole modern culture in China is transitional, contradictory and budding, the modern art in China is also characterized by the alternation of the old and the new, the blending of Chinese and Western cultures, and the change and development.

In ancient art, Chinese painting mainly used freehand brushwork and meticulous brushwork, which was manifested in figures, flowers and birds, landscapes and so on.

Modern works of art mostly appear in the form of oil painting, sketch, Chinese painting, exaggerated cartoons, prints, etc., which are characterized by delicate painting techniques and highlighting the depicted content through certain expression techniques.

The essential difference between China's ancient painting and modern painting lies in

The intervention of "science"

China's ancient paintings are based on calligraphy. They pay attention to brushwork, brushwork and artistic conception. There are more metaphysical things. Usually there are poems in paintings, especially after the Song Dynasty.

The bottleneck of Chinese painting is the large-scale theme of characters. Because painting is taught by mouth, there is no scientific theory. In the Qing dynasty, mustard seed garden could learn the basic essentials of painting as long as it bought books. But because this textbook itself is empirical, many works in that period are like prints, which I personally think are lifeless.

However, Europe experienced the Renaissance. With the understanding of perspective and anatomy, painters can draw people realistically. With scientific methods, major historical themes can be carried out in an orderly manner.

Modern China painting began when Liu Haisu founded the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Some people used western painting methods for reference before, but the big change came from

It started with Mr Liu Haisu!

Xu Beihong, whom we are all familiar with, was once his student. He introduced perspective and anatomy to China and taught sketch scientifically.

Everyone knows the horses painted by Xu Beihong, but they are not traditional ink paintings in China. Some extreme people think that he is sketching in ink, but in fact he doesn't know how to draw. He only knows that the horse he painted is good, but he doesn't know where it is.

Simply put, this is the most essential difference between China's traditional painting and modern painting.