The Art and Decoration of Fine-brush Painting for Ladies —— Fine-brush Painting for Ladies

Ceramic ladies painting is an important part of traditional ceramic painting. The brushwork is neat, the description is meticulous, and the color is elegant, which has strong artistic and decorative significance. Fine brushwork ladies' paintings are full of artistic and decorative interests from the aspects of line organization, facial depiction, color application, ink distribution, detail description and composition change. This kind of art and decoration is re-created by strengthening, weakening, concentrating, selecting, exaggerating and deforming the image according to its essential characteristics and objective laws in real life. It emphasizes that the natural form is more simple, vivid and rhythmic, which makes the picture artistic, thus becoming an important decorative feature of meticulous ladies painting.

The meticulous painting of ladies on porcelain is mainly reflected by painting elements such as lines, colors and composition, and various elements echo each other. Through the description of specific images, artistic works with both image beauty and decorative significance are created. It is an ideal beauty and artistic conception beauty that conforms to reality but is not equal to reality and higher than reality. It is a highly generalized decorative beauty with harmonious rhythm and modeling.

The first feature of meticulous painting of ladies on porcelain is to shape characters with lines, thus achieving the artistic effect of "both form and spirit" and "vivid charm". Chinese painting pays attention to writing spirit, while western painting pays attention to writing shape. From the perspective of Chinese painting system, lines have always been used to shape images, and their rich expressive connotations and decorative features are incomparable to other paintings.

When using meticulous brushwork on porcelain, ladies' paintings draw lessons from and absorb the expression techniques of Chinese paintings, and naturally express the figure and spirit of the characters with thin, precise, continuous and slow lines, which are full of rhythm, rhythm and decoration. The ancients summarized the lines of Chinese painting as "eighteen strokes", which is the result of their continuous exploration and summary from practice. To sum up, the drawing method can basically be divided into three types of lines: one type of line has small thickness change, uniform pressure, implicit strength and continuous strength; The other kind of linear thickness changes greatly, the pressure is inconsistent, and the linear changes are diverse, which is suitable for expressing dynamic potential and force; There is also a kind of line type, which is unpredictable, sharp and fast, and often has the meaning outside the pen. It is a freehand line. These three lines are different in painting and artistic conception, but they all show unique connotation and decorative effect. It is also different from western painting in pen skills, paying attention to the change of ink color, dry and wet thickness and so on. To enhance the artistic and decorative language of the picture.

Lines have strong generalization ability. In painting modeling, we can discard all the complicated details, extract the line combination that can express the object and image structure, accurately, vividly and quickly express the modeling, effectively highlight the basic characteristics, and achieve the harmony of the overall effect of the picture. The organization and linear change of lines directly determine the effect and artistry of the picture. For example, Cao painted a statue of Buddha in the Northern Qi Dynasty with dense brushwork and tight clothes, just like coming out of the water; In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Daozi painted figures with vivid brushstrokes and fluttering clothes. Their painting style is vividly called "a grass comes out of water, and Wu Dai becomes a wind" by later generations. From the regular, elegant, rigid and flexible lines that come out of dehydration, we can easily appreciate the decorative interest of traditional meticulous painting. On modern meticulous painting porcelain, such as the porcelain painting Left and Right created by the author, modern painting techniques are used in the arrangement and combination of lines and the treatment of figures' clothing lines, which breaks through the traditional dyeing techniques of ladies' paintings on clothes, hats and backpacks, skillfully combines the relationship between structure and sketch, and achieves artistic effects with richer levels and stronger three-dimensional sense. The growing plants are outlined in the background with dotted lines, and then the relationship between distance and reality is made with colors, so that the whole picture reflects a vibrant modern artistic atmosphere. In the process of painting, due to the different textures of the characters drawn, clothing lines will change in rigidity, density, thickness, lightness and Fiona Fang, but the only constant is the human body structure. Therefore, clothing lines and other accessories should be organized and processed according to the structure of the human body, so that lines and strokes can finally echo each other, echo each other, be harmonious and vivid, have a sense of rhythm and decoration, and show women's femininity.

The second feature of meticulous painting is the decoration of color. China's meticulous figure painting has a long history in the use of color, and painters of past dynasties have left a rich and valuable legacy for future generations. Different styles and schools of meticulous figure painting, such as a trickle, merged into a river of traditional painting art, forming a complete system of meticulous figure painting in China with unique colors. Sheikh, a famous painter in the Southern Qi Dynasty, put forward the view that "pictographs should be shaped according to objects and colors should be assigned according to categories" in his Six Laws, and attributed the use of colors to the understanding of categories, which became the eternal motto of meticulous painters.

In the traditional painting of ladies on porcelain, color not only has the function of balancing composition in the picture, but more importantly, it releases different color emotions through different color languages, so that viewers can communicate well with the picture and express their feelings. From the use of color, the most decorative painting is meticulous painting. Meticulous heavy color painting requires stone color as the quality, watercolor as the text, and on the basis of stone color, painting or rendering with gold, giving it soft and colorful colors, in order to pursue the magnificent and elegant decorative effect of the picture.

Fine brushwork ladies painting pays attention to rational and simple decorative charm. The simpler and more limited the color, the more decorative it is. Color is always associated with emotion, and its color meaning is similar to that of ink painting. There is no simple equivalent relationship between the color of Chinese painting and the objective image, which can be adjusted and changed at will. The purpose is not to depict, but to decorate and beautify, enhance the rhythm of the picture, and thus express emotions. Therefore, the color of meticulous painting on porcelain is perceptual, rational and decorative.

We can also appreciate the emotional, rational and decorative characteristics of color from famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. Moreover, we can learn from the figure paintings in the Tang Dynasty that the color decoration effect can not only cater to the appreciation interest of the upper class, but also reflect the different identities, temperaments, manners and relationships of the figures in the paintings, which has the decorative charm of color rendering. For example, Zhang Xuan's Lady You Chuntu of the State of Guo, Zhang Xuan's Picture of a Lady, and Yan's Picture of a Horse Walking, etc. This style of painting is very common and popular in the college paintings in the Tang Dynasty, which makes aristocratic and decorative realism blend aesthetic taste in the paintings and has strong aesthetic meaning.

If the elegant color decorative painting style is the embodiment of the formal beauty of the "wrong gold" pursued by the royal aristocrats in the Tang Dynasty, then the simple and elegant style of "clear water out of hibiscus" is appreciated and preferred by literati in previous dynasties. The decorative painting style of this color appeared in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, such as Zhang Zeduan's "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" and Li's "Ming Di Hitting the Ball", which were deeply loved by literati and painters. At that time, because of the prevalence of Neo-Confucianism, people pursued simple, simple and innocent aesthetic taste and charm. This aesthetic consciousness, as far as the color of meticulous figure painting is concerned, pursues simple and harmonious tones without losing its connotative decorative significance, which to a great extent reflects the quiet and luxurious aesthetic taste.

The third feature of meticulous ladies painting is the planar space processing. In the aspect of space expression, meticulous ladies painting attaches great importance to the use of plane space art, transforming the realistic three-dimensional space into a plane two-dimensional space, which makes the layout of meticulous ladies painting show strong decoration.

The composition of China's traditional meticulous painting of ladies is quite different from that of western painting. It breaks through the focus perspective of western painting, adopts the method of "scattered perspective", transcends the limitation of time and space, and grasps the artistic object as a whole, thus expanding the artistic conception of the picture. Scattered composition is a main feature of China's meticulous figure painting. There is no uniform vanishing point in the scattered dot composition, which can not produce three-dimensional sense, but it can maintain the flatness of the picture and better reflect the decorative beauty of the picture.

The meticulous brushwork on porcelain ladies' paintings breaks the limitation of time and space, and can organize everything in different time and space in the world without the limitation of time and space. With its unique artistic language, the specific shapes, actual proportions and visual relationships of different objects are perfectly coordinated, and scattered images are balanced, connected and skillfully combined.

Since ancient times, on the one hand, artists have shaped their bodies according to the laws of beauty, on the other hand, they are trying to capture the specific factors of the laws of beauty. As mentioned above, the porcelain paintings "Volkswagen" and "Autumn" not only retain the spiritual characteristics of Chinese painting, but also make breakthroughs in specific techniques such as spatial level treatment, line drawing and color setting. In the pursuit of shaping the two-dimensional space of characters, it transcends the traditional single plane, which is both heavy and ethereal. When rendering, the coloring technique close to plane painting is adopted, which not only avoids rigidity and highlights the independent aesthetic function of lines, but also highlights the ingenious application of decorative patterns and geometric lines in simplicity by using the bedding and echo between colors, making the picture have a strong modern sense. This artistic treatment of plane space, which is dominated by the overall atmosphere and artistic conception of the picture, conforms to the simple and natural aesthetic orientation and is an extension of tradition at a new level. It organically combines the depth that traditional meticulous painting does not have with meticulous painting, sketch, * * with individuality, fusion and difference, and is a real continuation of "nature comes from the outside and the heart comes from the inside".

In a word, the reason why the ladies' painting can stand in the forest of ceramic painting with its unique artistic charm is precisely because of the combination of China's artistic techniques and the full use of decorative means in realistic techniques, which has achieved a neat and rich artistic effect. And this decorative effect is formed through the organic connection of lines, colors and composition.