Traditional Chinese Bird and Flower Paintings Depicting Animals and Plants

Traditional Chinese Bird and Flower Paintings depict animals and plants.

I. Traditional Chinese Bird and Flower Paintings

The representative work of Chinese Bird and Flower Paintings is "Shining Night". During the Tang Dynasty, bird and flower painting became a separate subject, and at that time there were more animal paintings, such as cows, horses, tigers, cats and so on, which not only can focus on the dynamics of animals, but also very detailed in form. For example, this painting "Shining Night" depicts Tang Xuanzong's mount, in which the horse seems to be about to break free, leaving a great deal of room for the imagination of those who view it.

The Five Dynasties was an important period in the history of the development of Chinese birds and flowers, establishing two different styles, one of which was the richness and splendor of the rich and noble, and the other was the boneless style. By the Song Dynasty, flower and bird painting was further developed, which still followed the style of the Five Dynasties period, but by the Southern Song Dynasty, half of the people in the painting academy were painting flower and bird paintings, which can be said to have reached the peak period of the development of flower and bird paintings.

In terms of subject matter, it was also more varied, including plum, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums, etc. The painters put their own feelings on the brush, and injected new content into flower and bird paintings. Yuan dynasty flower and bird painting is also because of the influence of the literati paintings in the Song dynasty period, usually painted in light ink, no gaudy colors, this kind of work in the Song dynasty due to be respected by Su Shi and other literati, in the Yuan dynasty, a group of painters specializing in painting ink and water plum and bamboo.

Two, China's traditional painting

1, folk painting

In Chinese painting refers to in addition to the professional painters, literati painters, etc. outside of the painting as a means of subsistence and catering to the general custom of the city to engage in the painting of the street artists do all sorts of paintings. Their works tend to be colorful, sweet and delicate, unlike professional painters, literati painters, the paintings are more poetic, painting and other cultural connotations. And for the general cultural level of the civilian favorite.

2, landscape painting

Shanshui painting to depict the mountains and rivers scenery based on the paintings, the Wei and Jin dynasties, mostly for the figure as a supplement, from the Sui and Tang Dynasty, landscape painting gradually become a kind of painting. There are many painting techniques in landscape painting, such as thick ink, broken ink, dipping ink, accumulating ink, splashing ink, etc., to express the beauty of the landscape.