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What does the traditional Chinese painting format include

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Appreciation of Chinese landscape paintings, first of all, to understand the national painting maker's mind imagery. Painters put the characteristics of famous mountains and rivers, first stored in the heart, and then shaped in the hand, so not to "Xiao form" for the best, but to "through the meaning" of the main. A tree, a stone, a pavilion, can represent the painter's landscape. Do not have to pay attention to the proportion of perspective and other display issues.

Animals

There are many kinds of animals of different sizes, lions, tigers, cats, dogs can be called beasts, a variety of fish can be called swimming fish, cicadas, butterflies, dragonflies are called grass bugs, a variety of birds are called plumes. Animals can be categorized as birds and flowers paintings.

Figures

Can be divided into two categories: ancient figures, or heroes and celebrities through the ages as a category; modern costumes, or model sketching as a category. Since the figures should have movements and expressions, figure painting is a more profound production.

Based on the production techniques and brushwork, Chinese painting can be categorized into work-brush, writing and both work and writing.

Working Brush

Made with meticulous brushwork, working brushwork emphasizes the beauty of lines and meticulousness.

Writing

The mind feels and the brush moves at will , regarded as intentional strokes, writing paintings do not pay attention to the line, pay attention to the imagery, and the fineness of the work of the brush is contrary to the fine. Vividness is often better than the former.

Based on the content of the picture can be divided into traditional painting and modern painting.

Traditional

Chinese paintings are thousands of years old, forming a set of brushwork, composition, chapping and other fixed patterns, so the style of Chinese painting is called traditional painting.

Modern

Modern Chinese painters, with reference to Western painting and the works of the modernists, blended the essence of their Chinese paintings, and even more abstract new school of Chinese paintings, the use of color, composition, and so on, are very different from traditional painting.

A painting of six horses is called "Prancing Horses". Painting height of 3 meters, 1 meter wide, this is included in the national cultural relics of Xu Beihong life painted the largest "galloping horse map" authentic. The master used the bold ink and strong line drawing method, focusing on portraying the charm and temperament of the horse. The horse in the painting is majestic, athletic, light and speedy, with the beauty of "thin bones and copper sound", the running horse is strong and vigorous, this "Running Horse" not only expresses the spirit and characteristics of the horse, but also endows the artist with his own personality and ideals --- Struggle for the revitalization of national art! -Struggle for the revitalization of national art!