Can "line drawing" become an independent painting?

When it comes to Chinese painting, people always think of ink painting and meticulous painting first. As we all know, there is an independent painting style in China's paintings-line drawing. Line drawing originated from ancient line drawing, which uses brush and ink lines to describe the outline structure of objects. It is a painting method without color and pen and ink rendering.

Compared with western painting, Chinese painting has its unique painting elements, and "line" is a very important part of this painting element and the spiritual core of Chinese painting. The painter uses the changes of lines such as straightness, lightness, rigidity and softness to create a general artistic image. Sketch is the embodiment of the refinement and generalization of art form "line".

Sketch began with Li in Song Dynasty and gradually developed into an independent painting form. Prior to this, line drawing was only a sketch of drawing powder, and from then on, line drawing became one of the traditional paintings that competed with meticulous painting and ink painting.

Influenced by the family environment, Li was exposed to the calligraphy of many masters since childhood, and realized the brushwork of the ancients, forming his own unique artistic temperament.

He inherited the line drawing techniques of ancient Lu Gu and Zhang Wu (Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Sengyou, Wu Daozhi), and incorporated the square and hard iron line drawing into his paintings, which accurately showed the structural and texture features of objects, and formed a new line drawing style of "sweeping away makeup, clearing ink" and "not painting", that is, giving up color and rendering, and relying entirely on lines to express the characteristics of people and things.

According to "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum", Li * * * has works 107. Except copying ancient paintings, others are sketches, which shows that sketches account for a large part of his artistic creation. He has been engaged in line drawing creation all his life and made great contributions to enriching the expression techniques and creative ideas of Chinese painting. He is known as the "master of line drawing" and has a far-reaching influence on later generations.

Summary: Line drawing is a kind of Chinese painting, also called "line drawing". Sketch is to draw the outline and structure of an object with brush lines to increase the level and overall feeling of the picture, and the shape is simple and clear.