Write a 3000-word essay on "Elegance and Popularity in Chinese Art".

Chinese and Western paintings are obviously different in the use of color and the feeling of color. Traditional Chinese painting uses ink to mix colors, which is vastly different from the three-dimensionality, darkness and perspective of Western painting, which uses oil colors, and seeks to achieve visual effects in many sets of contradictions, such as thickness and thinness, depth and lightness, and lightness and density. Ancient Chinese painting theory believes that ink has five colors: burnt, heavy, light, clear, etc. Ink color is divided into six colors: black, white, dry, wet, thick, light. In traditional Chinese painting, there is no distinction between black and white, there is no yin and yang, there is no dryness and wetness, there is no verdure, there is no moistness, and there is no distinction between light and dark, there is no concavity and convexity, there is no distance and proximity. Chinese painting art to intuitively feel the thousands of changes in color, while Western painting art, on the whole, is inclined to optical sense, more rich in more or less He spirit and rational thinking.

Chinese painting is different from Western painting, and perhaps this is a great characteristic. Western painting is representational, very realistic, yes, more so. Chinese paintings are pictorial, this pictorial is not probably its, it is written imagery, it is written ideal, it is written in the painting, the state of mind. So there is a painting in the poem, and there is a poem in the painting. So Chinese painting is not only to be good at painting, but also to have culture. Involving poetry, calligraphy, painting, printing all aspects of cultivation.

The traditional Chinese aesthetic concept has been continued to this day is the unity of man and nature, nature, simplicity, back to basics for the beauty of this Chinese painting is very prominent. In addition, the Chinese people's Zen thought is more developed, the relationship between form and meaning is not made very real. At the beginning, although from the realistic, depicting the characters, but gradually integrated into the unique way of thinking of the Chinese people, the unity of man and heaven, the values of aesthetics, and form and meaning between the discursive way of thinking, is. So in China from color, composition, black and white, line, all aspects of this unique philosophical concepts and thinking concepts, and even the ethical concepts of life. And the Chinese have traditionally had a sense of movement in the picture, which is the Chinese naturally have a movie mindset, a visual image of movement, so scattered perspective in Chinese painting. When you look at it, it is in motion, looking at the landscape is alive.

Chinese painting imagery embodied in the same man and nature, emphasizing the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, advocating the eye to the heart to the intention to the intention of the image, the image of the intention, the subjective feelings of the external image, the objective of the image of the interest, can be said to be a blend of things and me, the unity of heaven and man. Of course, Chinese paintings also have to face objective objects, but after these objects are intertwined with the aesthetic subject, they are also transformed into a kind of spiritual state of materialization, and are no longer bound to the objective and true standard of measurement. For natural objects, it is not unaware of them, but doesn't need to know them, and has no intention to know them deliberately. Thus, Chinese painting doesn't talk about focal point perspective, but is good at scattering composition; it doesn't talk about three-degree space, but seeks for two-degree changes; it doesn't talk about block surface carving, but takes the outline outline; it doesn't talk about physical center of gravity, but emphasizes on the subjective feeling. It breaks away from the physical image and gets refined into a spiritual track with subjective imagery, exerting a spiritual effect far beyond the object form itself. The imagery characteristic of Chinese painting has a strong expressive power and artistic charm, and its artistic pursuit is also a different way to express the objective, but also emphasize the subjective. When you paint, you should have a clear idea of what you want to do, keep your brush simple but mean to work, and look for a strange situation, not only within the elephant, within the country, but also outside the elephant, outside the country. Chinese paintings emphasize God over form, meaning over image, and require both God and form, a wide range of meanings and images, and a blending of situations. The pursuit of the brush is endless and the meaning is infinite, the image is limited and the meaning is boundless. In short, all these are the rich connotations of Chinese painting's imagery characteristics. How many thousands of years, Chinese painting is magnificent and colorful, continuous, even in the world of culture collision, integration of today, but also still show eye-catching glory, which is inseparable from the aesthetic of the characteristics of the image of Chinese painting.

Western painting art in general terms, there are two major schools, one is the realistic or figurative school, the way to recognize and grasp nature is purely objective, always through the scientific spirit as the basis for the painter to observe the study of nature is mainly the approach to the scene sketching. Requirements for the object, light source, environment, point of view four fixed, that is, the position of the objective scene, the point of view can only be selected, and can never be moved casually on the screen, in order to strictly in accordance with the physical, optical principles, scientifically and accurately reproduces the objective world in three-dimensional space, and the use and embodiment of the accuracy of the principles of perspective, anatomy, and the degree of accuracy of the color as an important measure of the quality of the art. Therefore, the painter's efforts are used on the objects and light and shadow that can be seen by the eyes, and are not allowed to add any personal ideas and imagination. With the development of science and technology, and the emergence of the performance of X-ray, infrared spectrum, the speed of light, laser lighting effects, etc., with the naked eye can not see the content and painting, intended to further reflect the latest achievements of science and technology from the picture. The second is abstraction. Western art through to the extremes, artists in the figurative realism feel tired after, from the Impressionists began, only in a few decades, some people from the figurative this extreme dramatically turned to abstraction - another extreme. Abstraction and strictly reproduce the objective objects of the realistic school is just the opposite, the creative approach is to make natural objects deformation, the pursuit of abstract decorative and visual effects, or with the use of light and color and more or less how many forms of abstract combinations of forms to express the individual subjective thought experience, and even the subconscious, subconscious, and all kinds of hidden psychology. With the creation of exaggerated and deformed methods becoming more and more extreme, some people even simply throw away their brushes to engage in installation art and behavioral art. Certain Western modernism, post-modernism boasts of avant-garde, is actually far from reality, against all traditional culture, moral concepts, more and more tends to pathological self-expression, to the normal development of art caused major disruption and destruction, but also certainly difficult to cause the viewer's **** Ming, can not be accepted by the general public.

Painting shows a colorful world, as if taking people to a wide field embroidered with flowers and green. In a painting, the lines of various colors are like the melody of heavenly music, like the music and dance of the invisible man, and even like the invisible spring breeze, which turns the colors of life over and over, and makes them high and clear, like the rhythm of music and the rhyme of poetry. In the creation of painting, the Chinese tradition has always respected those who do not paint as a specialized profession, but are good at painting the cultural people, known as the literati painters, the first should be a culturally educated people, but at the same time have the skills of painting, so that the highest value of the art of painting is precisely hidden in the artist's non-utilitarian motives. Painting is originally a kind of moving from the heart, and this kind of moving dominates the generation of image, which makes the color, line, texture, structure and space on the screen ****sound with each other, and the painter's mind ****sound, and then with the viewer's mind ****sound. As a result, a kind of painting that was summarized by the Chinese philosophers as "the unity of heaven and mankind" was created - pure painting. There is always a reason for a person to start painting, to the things around the attitude, shape or lyricism, in a particular space to write their own eyes see, leaving the figure of the object on the screen, and may even be an unconscious imitation of the brush and ink in the swing and turn, reflecting and superimposed changes to the life of the mystery, to the feelings of all natural things. The state of mind, the freedom of association, and the place of being absorbed in the edge of consciousness, the melodic movement of lines and surfaces is not easy to predict, sometimes there are surprises of jumping, all in line with the rhythm of the heart, and ultimately get such as God's help, the unexpected echo, and become a colorful chapter of the life of the condensation, the impact on the hearts of every admirer.

Chinese paintings are often just a few brushstrokes, but what you can read from this picture is too much. So as Prof. Yu just said, among Chinese paintings, we mean the real Chinese paintings, the Chinese paintings with Chinese culture and charm, you can really read all the essence of oriental culture and art.