What types of Chinese paintings can be categorized in terms of their forms of expression? From the subject matter can be divided into which categories?

By form of expression: brush painting, brush painting, small brush painting, large brush painting, heavy color painting, ink painting, white painting, Dunhuang frescoes.

By subject matter: bird and flower painting, landscape painting, figure painting.

Chinese painting, short for "national painting", is painting with a brush, ink and Chinese paint on special rice paper or silk.

Chinese painting can be roughly divided into; figures, landscape, boundary painting, flowers, fruits and vegetables, plumes, animals, insects and fish, etc.; there are brushwork, writing, crochet, color, ink and other forms of techniques, color can be divided into gold and blue, the size of the green and green, boneless, splash of color, color, light, light and red and so on several kinds.

The main use of line and ink color changes, hook, chapped, dotted, dyed, thick, light, dry, wet, yin, yang, to, back, virtual, real, sparse, dense and white and other means of expression, to depict the object and operating position; layout, wide field of view, not confined to the focal point of perspective.

There are murals, hanging scrolls, scrolls, albums, fans and other forms of painting, supplemented by the traditional framing process. Figure painting from the late Zhou to Han Wei, the Six Dynasties gradually mature. Landscape, flowers, birds and animals to the Sui and Tang dynasties began to form an independent painting.

The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty saw the emergence of schools of painting, and ink painting became popular, and landscape painting became a major subject.

Literati painting was developed in the Song Dynasty, and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty, with a tendency toward pictorial style; it continued to develop in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and in modern times, focusing more and more on achieving the meaning of God. In the Wei Jin, North and South Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were influenced by Buddhist art and Western painting.

Chinese painting emphasizes "to learn from the outside, to get the source of the heart", and requires "the intention of the first pen, the painting in the intention", emphasizes the melting of things and me, to create a mood, to achieve the shape of the God, the shape of the God and the vividness of the atmosphere. Since painting and calligraphy have the same origin, and both of them have a close connection with the bone method of brushwork and line operation, painting and calligraphy and seal cutting influence each other, forming a significant artistic characteristics.

The tools and materials used in painting are the special brushes, ink, paper, inkstone and silk.

Modern Chinese painting has made breakthroughs and developments in inheriting traditions and absorbing foreign techniques.

Expanded Information:

p>Characteristics of Chinese Painting:

Chinese painting, in terms of content and artistic creation, embodies the ancient people's understanding of nature, society and the political, philosophical, religious, moral, literary and artistic aspects associated with it. Chinese painting has its own distinctive features.

1, pay attention to the "rhythm and vividness", not confined to the appearance of the object's likeness, but more emphasis on the expression of the author's subjective interest. Chinese painting emphasizes "writing God in shape", and pursues a feeling of "wonderful between likeness and unlikeness"

2. It emphasizes the charm of ink and brush, and the requirements of brushwork are: flat, round, stay, heavy and change. Ink method requires five colors of ink, burnt, thick, heavy, light and clear.

3, pay attention to the "bone method of brushwork", do not pay attention to the focus of perspective, do not emphasize the influence of the environment on the change of light and color of the object

4, pay attention to the layout of the blank space and the object's "momentum".

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