What are the types of landscape paintings

Chinese landscape paintings can be simply categorized into three types: ink, light-red and lime green.

1 In the first step, start by drawing the horizon, and the outline of the water stream.

2 The second step is to draw the general outline of the hill in the distance, and complete the details of both the water and the grass.

3 In the third step, next, draw some more hills.

4 In the fourth step, draw some clouds in the sky.

5 In the fifth step, finally, paint the mountains in green, the clouds in white, the water flow in blue, the grass in light green and embellish some small red flowers.

Shanshui painting, referred to as "landscape", a kind of Chinese painting, depicting the natural scenery of mountains and rivers as the main body of the painting. Landscape painting in China's painting history occupies an important position, can be divided into green landscape, ink landscape, light red landscape, small green landscape and boneless landscape and other types, is for the Oriental painting is extremely rich in characteristics of the art. The representative painters are Zhan Ziqi, Wang Wei, Fan Kuan and Zhang Hong.

Landscape painting is one of the traditional classifications of Chinese painting, the early landscape is mainly the background of the figure painting, the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties period is gradually independent from the figure painting, the Sui and Tang dynasties to form a separate classification of Chinese painting, Wu Daozi, Li Si Xun, Wang Wei and others are good at painting landscapes.

Since the Tang Dynasty, painters of landscapes have been divided into two schools, the north and the south. The founder of the north school was the Tang Dynasty painter Li Sixun, who made good use of color and mainly painted landscapes along the banks of the Yellow River in the area of Guanluo, and Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, Zhang Zeduan, Li Tang, Ma Yuan and others belonged to the north school. Wang Wei, the founder of the Southern School, made good use of ink and less of color. Mi Fu, Wang Ximeng, Zhao Boju and others belonged to the Southern School.

Mi Fu and his son pioneered the Mi Dot Landscape, which was designed to express the state of Jiangnan's smoky Lemon Taki, while Wang Ximeng and Zhao Boju were good at painting green and blue landscapes. During the Song Dynasty, landscape paintings were very popular, from princes and nobles to literati and merchants, all of them were willing to decorate their halls with landscape paintings.

Yuan dynasty landscape painting focuses on writing, the famous painters are Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan, Wang Meng, known as the Yuan four schools. Landscape painting continued to develop during the Ming and Qing dynasties.