Essay about the meaning of Chinese painting (500 words)

The Beauty and Appreciation of Chinese Paintings

For the average person, whether they can appreciate a painting is often a matter of whether they can read it or not, and the steps they take to appreciate it are: what is the painting? Does it look like a painting? What is the symbolism of the artist in painting this image? If all the answers come out, it is considered to be understood; if not, it is considered to be unintelligible. This method is a traditional story-telling method, and their appreciation of paintings tends to rely too much on literary descriptions. Then, using this method to appreciate Chinese paintings, generally speaking, works of brushwork and realism are easy to appreciate, because they are concrete, real and understandable. But if it is rough. Writing works, especially ink writing works, it is more difficult to appreciate, because it is not realistic, the image is not specific, it can not understand, and there is no way to know the author's moral. Of course, the general public with this method to appreciate the painting is completely understandable, because the painting like, see understand, it is easy to cause associations, produce **** woo. But we must understand that the goodness of a painting is not measured by its likeness or lack of likeness. In terms of art, we measure the good or bad of a painting, or we appreciate a painting, first of all, does not lie in it like or not like, but in the theme of the painting, or a certain concept, a certain idea, a certain mood radiating from the painting, whether it can firmly grasp the viewer's heartstrings, whether it can give a person full of artistic aesthetic enjoyment, and make a person to get some kind of enlightenment and education. It should be said that this is the real purpose of all art works. The resemblance or lack of resemblance is only a means to achieve the purpose of the work, not the purpose itself. Therefore, resemblance or lack of resemblance cannot be used as a criterion for measuring the goodness of a work of art or for appreciating a work of art. So, how do painters look at paintings? In the case of Chinese paintings, the insiders generally look at the overall momentum of the picture, in art terms is the first taste of its charm, or similarity, and then look at its ink and ink interest, composition, coloring, brushwork and so on. The last thing to look at is its modeling, i.e., whether it looks like or resembles. Insiders of this appreciation of the charm of the method is of course to grasp the essence, because the charm is a high artistic aesthetic enjoyment, often the pursuit of Chinese painters to achieve the goal. Of course, the average person from the painting to experience a charm is not an easy thing, that not only requires a certain aesthetic ability, artistic cultivation, but also need to have a certain amount of basic knowledge of painting, especially through the painting and trained a feeling. Therefore, in order to appreciate paintings well, we need to have various talents and artistic cultivation. However, if we appreciate paintings from the following aspects may be better understood. Some people suggest that the appreciation of art needs to go through three stages of aesthetic perception, aesthetic understanding and aesthetic creation, so it makes sense to appreciate paintings from these three aspects. Aesthetic perception requires us to intuitively perceive the aesthetic object, i.e. the work of art itself, we can perceive what is painted on the work? We can perceive what is painted on the work? Whether the painting is like or unlike, whether the color is vivid or gray, whether the line is smooth or clumsy, whether the expression is brushwork or writing, etc., in a word, we should personally and calmly carry out the intuitive feeling. The second step is to make aesthetic understanding on the basis of aesthetic perception. That is, on the basis of intuitive feeling, understanding and thinking, to grasp the meaning, significance and connotation of the work. This kind of understanding includes the understanding of the artistic form and artistic technique of the work; the understanding of the content and theme of the work; and the understanding of the era background and the spirit of the times of the work, etc., which requires the full mobilization of our thinking ability. We can think step by step: what is the content of the work painting to be expressed? How is it expressed? Are the artistic means used appropriate? Can it fully express the theme? At the same time, through the picture of the work, guess the author's mind, whether it is passionate praise or bitter satire; through the atmosphere of the picture, experience the mood of the picture: whether it is deep or bold, optimistic or sad. You can also analyze the author's life, the characteristics of his creation, and the background of the era according to the existing knowledge structure. At this point, the aesthetic appreciation of art is not finished, there is a stage of aesthetic creation. That is, through the aesthetic perception and aesthetic understanding, on the basis of the aesthetic works of re-creation, through their own accumulation of aesthetic experience, cultural knowledge, the main living experience, etc., to carry out rich associations, rise to go, and then create a new image. In this way, you really get the enlightenment and education, appreciate the painting to get the real meaning. Teenagers may wish to use this method to appreciate the Chinese painting (or other paintings), seriously try to see if you can gain.