What is the name of composition in China's traditional painting?

Composition is called composition or layout in China traditional painting.

Composition is to properly organize individual or local images in a certain space according to the requirements of a specific theme to form a coordinated and complete picture. In China traditional painting, it is called "composition" or "layout".

Lu Xun's letter to Wu Bo: "Both of Ye Fu's paintings are good, but I think Dawn is better, because the composition is lively and the light and shade are distinct." The third part of Hong Shen's "Preliminary Knowledge of Drama Directors": "The director's handling of line modeling on the stage can actually be regarded as continuous composition."

Extended knowledge

It means that the creator organizes and arranges his own images in a certain space, and forms a specific structure and form between the parts and the whole of the image and between the image spaces. In short, composition is the formal structure of plastic arts, including the sum of all plastic factors and means.

In various plastic arts, the title of composition is different, such as painting composition, design composition, French style and layout of architecture, photography framing, calligraphy shelf and white cloth.

The concept of composition has rich connotations, including:

Determination of artistic image in space. Determination of artistic image in space. The combination and separation form between the various parts of the artistic image itself, the main image and the accompanying image. The combination and separation form of artistic image and space. The visual impact and sense of strength produced by artistic images. The application of the law of formal beauty and the generation of aesthetic feeling.

In the theory of Chinese painting, the name of composition is not composition, but layout, or quotient. In other words, photographic composition is transformed from artistic composition, which we can simply call framing.

Whether it is the layout in Chinese painting or the framing in photography, it only involves part of the composition, and it cannot contain the full meaning of composition. Therefore, it is more scientific and accurate to use the word "component" uniformly.

What is the purpose of learning composition? It is to study the relationship between the height, width and depth of three-dimensional space on the plane, so as to highlight the theme and enhance the artistic appeal. Whether the composition is handled properly, novel and concise has a great relationship with the success or failure of photographic works of art.

Practically speaking, a successful photographic work of art is the success of composition first. Successful composition can make the content of the work logical, clear-cut, prominent and pleasing to the eye. On the contrary, it will affect the effect of the work, which is chaotic and lacks hierarchy, and the whole work is unintelligible.