An important feature of China's ancient paintings is that

Pay attention to the function of the line.

Chinese painting has its own obvious characteristics. Chinese painting, according to the ancient paintings of Sheikh in the Southern Dynasties;

Pay attention to "vivid charm", not stick to the appearance of the object, but emphasize the expression of the author's subjective interest. Chinese painting emphasizes "expressive form", pursues a feeling of "beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity", and pays attention to the charm of pen and ink. Writing requirements: flat, round, left, heavy and varied. Ink method requires that ink be divided into five colors: coke, thick, heavy, light and clear.

Paying attention to the "brushwork method" does not lie in the focus perspective, nor in the influence of the environment on the light color change of the object, but in the blank layout and the "momentum" of the object. It can be said that western painting is an art of "reappearance", while Chinese painting is an art of "expression", and Chinese painting is to express "verve" and "realm".

Extended data:

Chinese painting can be roughly divided into; Figures, landscapes, boundary paintings, flowers, fruits, feathers, animals, insects, fish, etc. There are techniques such as meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork, sketching, color setting and ink painting, and color setting can be divided into resplendent, turquoise, boneless, splash color, light color and light crimson.

Mainly use the changes of lines and ink color to describe the image and business place with hook, dot, dye, thick, light, dry, wet, yin, yang, direction, back, virtual, real, sparse, dense and empty; View layout, wide field of vision, not limited to focus perspective. There are murals, screens, scrolls, picture albums, fans and other picture frames, supplemented by traditional mounting techniques.

Figure painting gradually matured from the late Zhou Dynasty to the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. Mountains and rivers, flowers, paintings of birds and animals, etc. It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that an independent painting discipline was formed. In the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, various schools of thought competed for each other, and ink painting became popular, and landscape painting became a major branch. Literati painting developed in the Song Dynasty, but reached its peak in the Yuan Dynasty, and the painting style tended to be freehand. Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times continued to develop, paying more and more attention to expressing ideas and smoothing the mind.

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