How many types of Chinese murals, what is the difference between them

There are three main forms of ancient Chinese murals in terms of form, which are:

(I) Ancient Chinese tomb chamber murals. It is painted inside the burial chamber.

(ii) ancient Chinese cave temple murals. Is painted on the wall of the grotto temple.

(C) ancient Chinese temple frescoes. Is painted in the temple wall.

Ancient Chinese frescoes are distinguished by technique, there are two types of painting and painting techniques.

Painting type

Painting type refers to the means of painting, especially hand-painted directly on the wall. Specific painting methods are: ① dry fresco, in the coarse mud, fine mud, lime slurry treatment of dry wall painting; ② wet fresco, the base is half-dry, to clear lime water and pigment painting, must be completed at once, difficult; ③ tempera paintings, egg yolks or egg whites as the main mixing agent for the water-soluble pigments, painting in the dry wall, opaque, easy to dry, there is a sense of firmness; ④ wax paintings, wax and pigment mixing paintings on wooden boards or stone, then Wax painting, wax and pigment mixed on wood or stone, and then heated; ⑤ oil painting, painted on linen or wood; ⑥ acrylic painting, with acrylic as the main mixing agent, fast-drying, no luster, commonly used in modern frescoes. The above painting methods are sometimes mixed, or combined with craftwork and relief sculpture.

Painting craft type

Painting craft type refers to the craft production means to complete the final effect of the mural. Due to the production of handmade crafts or modern technology, coupled with a variety of materials, texture, texture performance, can achieve other means of painting can not be achieved by the special artistic effect, it is widely used by the modern frescoes, divided into: ① wall carvings, between carving and frescoes, tend to planarization of the composition, not to the volume of modeling is the main, so it is still close to the frescoes, there are shallow relief, deep relief and yin carving line and other techniques, the material has stone, cement, ceramics, wood carving, bronze and so on. (ii) wall carving, cement mixed with chalk, lime, quartz sand, and then mix into the pigment, make the wall, not dry, peeled carved out of different color layers, made of murals; (iii) mosaic murals, mainly cement mixed into the binder, with color stone, ceramic pieces, color glass, shells, enamel, gemstones and other particles inlaid; (iv) ceramic murals, easy to produce, strong and durable, with a good visual effect, for modern Ceramic frescoes are easy to produce, sturdy and durable, with good visual effects, and are widely used for modern frescoes. Can also use a variety of processes to produce murals, such as grinding paint, lacquer painting, carpet weaving, printing and dyeing, artificial resins, synthetic fibers and so on. Modern fresco involves more categories, has become a painting, sculpture, crafts, architecture and modern industrial technology and other disciplines between a fringe art.