What is the meaning of "high and far, deep and far, flat and far" in Chinese painting?

1, "lofty", is: "from the bottom of the mountain and look up to the top of the mountain, is called lofty." There is also a saying called "worm's-eye view", but some intentionally put themselves in the meaning of the low, to see what are tall and majestic, majestic, basically in the horizon at the lower end of the picture, used to describe the mountains and high peaks is no longer appropriate.

2, "far-reaching", it is "from the front of the mountain and peep at the back of the mountain, called far-reaching." From the front inward to draw the feeling of depth is called far-reaching. It means that the audience is lent a pair of clairvoyant eyes, see thousands of mountains, hills and gullies are condensed between the size of the picture.

As for the horizon, it is mostly at the upper end of the painting, similar to the "bird's eye view". The depth of the painting is large, creating a mood of far-reaching space.

3, "Pingyuan", that is, from the near mountains and look at the distant mountains, reflecting a top-down realm, shaping the "mountains with the Pingyuan far" kind of artistic effect. The Pingyuan method of overlooking the perspective of the composition, the easiest to express the realm of calm and harmony, presenting a beautiful.

The far-flung scenery should be painted with a vast space in front and behind, and there are two kinds of far-flung painting methods: one is the far-flung landscape with short mountains and hills; and the other is the plain land with fields and rivers only.

"Three far" belongs to both the aesthetic object, also belongs to the aesthetic subject, that is, the pursuit of a kind of transcendence, calm, openness, clarity, tranquility of the psychological realm. And this psychological realm and the aesthetic object of the "three far" integration, will form a "see its elephant", "see its big idea" of the artistic mood.

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Development of the Three Distant Methods:

The Three Distant Methods were developed differently since Guo Xi's proposal by Han Yi and his descendants Huang Gongwang, Wang Gui, and Fei Han Yuan, who had migrated to Japan.

Guo Xi also mentioned in the three far in the three shades of feeling, that is, the lofty different, far from the color of heavy obscurity, far from the color of bright and mineral combined with his analysis of the lofty momentum abruptly, far from the meaning of overlap, far from the meaning of the ethereal and ethereal, it seems that the author is made a deep observation of the latter.

We face the mountains from the bottom of the mountain and the top of the mountain, must feel the mountain color Chu clear, mountain peaks proudly prominent. If you are looking at the mountain from the front of the mountain, the color of the mountain will be dark and overlapping. If it is from the near mountain and look away, then it will feel due to the distance and make the distant mountains in the air layer in the indistinct fuzzy feeling of the above is due to the distance between the painter and the scene when framing the direction of the line of sight, the size of the wild and other gaps and produce.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia -San Yuan