What is Boneless Painting

The painting method of boneless painting is as follows: When talking about boneless, people think of Yun Shouping in the early Qing Dynasty. In fact, the method of painting without bones appeared in the Five Dynasties period, and Huang Tsuen and Huang Julai, father and son of the Five Dynasties period, used this method, which was later developed, and Lang Shining, a foreign missionary in the Qianlong period, also used the method of painting without bones to express the birds and flowers. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo recorded in Mengxi Bianan that "the Huang painting of flowers, wonderful in the color, the use of the pen is very new and fine, not even see the ink." Boneless Painting:A painting method in Chinese painting.

In calligraphy, the place where the brush passes is called "bone", and the rest is called "flesh". Instead of outlining the outline, the coloring is done directly to shape the form, which is called boneless painting. The origin of the boneless painting method has many different stories, and the most primitive boneless painting method should have existed in the Neolithic Age. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Zhang Shengxiao, while borrowing from Indian painting techniques, further developed the concept and technique of coloring in Chinese painting, laying a solid foundation for the maturation of the technique.

The technique is said to be a landscape painting technique created by Zhang Shengxiao during the Northern and Southern Dynasties at the beginning of the fifth century, in which the colors of green, ochre, and white are used directly to create mountains, rocks, clouds, and trees. The boneless technique was created by Zhang, and Yang Sheng used it to paint landscapes in the Tang Dynasty, which was called "boneless landscape", and Xu Chongshi used it to paint flowers in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was the founder of "boneless flowers".