Gu Shuhua's paintings

Chinese painting for short is one of the traditional plastic arts in China, and it has its own system in the world art field. Painting themes include: figures, landscapes, boundary paintings, flowers, melons and fruits, feathers, animals, fish and insects, etc. The forms of techniques are: meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork, line drawing, coloring and ink painting. Colors can be divided into: gold, turquoise, boneless, splash, light crimson and so on. Mainly using the changes of lines and ink colors, the apparent techniques are hook, roll, dot, dye, thick, light, dry, wet, yin, yang, direction, back, virtual, solid, sparse, dense and empty. Because painting and calligraphy are of the same origin, painting, calligraphy and seal cutting interact with each other, forming a remarkable artistic feature. Painting materials and utensils are the unique "Four Treasures of the Study" in China.

Ink painter:

A kind of Chinese painting, painted in ink. Pay attention to simplicity, symbolism and nature. Legend has it that it began in the Tang Dynasty, became in the Five Dynasties, flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and continued to develop since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Give full play to the function of ink painting with brushwork as the leading factor. "Ink is color" means that the level change of ink is the level change of color. "Colorful ink" means that colorful colors can be replaced by multi-level ink chroma. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei put forward that "ink painting is the best", and ink painting has existed for a long time in the history of China painting; Important position.

Oil painting:

A painting. It is a painting made of linseed oil, walnut oil and other colors. Generally painted on cloth, wood or cardboard. It is characterized by strong hiding power of color, which can fully show the realism of objects and rich color effects. It is the main type of western painting. From ancient Greece, Italian Renaissance painters emerged in large numbers in the14th century. At the beginning of the15th century, the Nederland painter Van Ike reformed the oil painting technology, further mixed pigments and laid them freely layer by layer, which improved the color brightness. It has been widely used in the west and has been continuously improved, making it perfect and becoming a worldwide apparent painting form.

Printed matter:

One of plastic arts. It is a kind of painting printed by hand on different materials with knives and pens as tools, which can be copied to a limited extent. As far as the nature of prints and the materials used are concerned, they can be divided into relief prints, such as woodcut prints and hemp prints; Gravure printing, such as copper plate; Lithography, such as lithography; Orifice plate and glass plate, etc.

Gouache painting:

A kind of painting, which is made by mixing powder pigment with water. Can be painted on cloth, wood, and all kinds of drawing paper. Color has a certain hiding power and is generally opaque. If used properly, it can have a heavy, clear and light feeling.

Comics:

This is an ironic and humorous painting. It is the art of political struggle and ideological struggle for painters to satirize, criticize or praise some people and things by means of exaggeration, metaphor, symbol and implication.

Sketch:

Terminology of Chinese painting. Speaking of Buddhist scriptures, Buddhists call samples "masterpieces" and simplified versions "sketches". Chinese painting sketches prevailed in Song Dynasty, with uncertain specifications, square shape and small but not dull pictures. "A picture in the distance, a scene in a hundred miles" is a work that sees the big from the small.

Four gentlemen's paintings:

Terminology of Chinese painting. Refers to the works with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum as the theme. This kind of theme symbolizes noble character and the spirit of integrity, strength, tenacity, optimism and fear of violence.

Literati painting:

Also known as "literati painting", a kind of Chinese painting, generally refers to the paintings made by China people and literati in feudal society of China. Different from the paintings of folk painters, palace painting academies and professional painters. "Literati painting" mostly takes landscapes, flowers and birds, plum blossoms, bamboo chrysanthemums, wood and stones as themes. To express "spirit" or personal ambition, including feelings of national oppression or resentment against decadent politics, emphasizing literary accomplishment, pen and ink interest, and emphasizing charm and artistic conception in painting. Literati painting has a great influence on the aesthetic thought of Chinese painting and the development of techniques such as ink painting and freehand brushwork.