Types of Chinese Painting

The four types of Chinese painting: traditional, brushwork, ink and wash, and freehand.

A Brief Introduction to Chinese Painting

Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China. Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, is a brush dipped in water, ink, color painting on silk or paper. Tools and materials include brushes, ink, pigments, rice paper, silk, etc., and the subjects can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. From the point of view of art history, before the Republic of China are collectively referred to as ancient paintings.

Chinese painting had no definite name in ancient times, and was generally called danqing, which is a self-contained system in the field of art in the world. In terms of content and artistic creation, Chinese painting embodies the ancient people's understanding of nature, society and the political, philosophical, religious, moral, literary and natural aspects associated with it, and it is one of the four arts of qin, qi, shu and painting.

Second, painting tools

Chinese painting has obvious characteristics, traditional Chinese painting, according to the South Dynasty Xie He's ancient painting Pin Lu comments: pay attention to "vividness", not confined to the object's appearance of the similarity, but more emphasis on the expression of the author's subjective interests. Chinese painting emphasizes "writing God in form" and pursues a feeling of "wonderful between likeness and unlikeness".

Paying attention to the charm of ink and brushwork, the brushwork requirements: flat, round, stay, heavy, change. The ink method requires five colors of ink, burnt, thick, heavy, light and clear; it is concerned with the "bone method of brushwork", not focusing on perspective, not emphasizing the influence of the environment on the change of light and color of the object; it is concerned with the arrangement of the blank space and the "momentum" of the object.

Compared with foreign paintings, it can be said that Western painting is the art of "reproduction", while Chinese painting is the art of "expression". Chinese painting is the art of expression. Chinese painting is to express "chi yun" and "realm".

Themes of Chinese painting

One, figure painting

China's figure painting has a long history. According to records, the Shang and Zhou periods, there have been murals. Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty specialized in figure painting, is the first painter in the history of China's painting to clearly put forward the idea of writing God in the shape of the painter. Yan Liben of the Tang Dynasty also specialized in figure painting. There are also Wu Daozi, Han Gu and so on. All of them made contributions to figure painting. After the Tang Dynasty, more painters of figure painting, all generations.

Two, landscape painting

Landscape painting (commonly known as landscape painting, landscape painting), is a specialized art discipline, has a long history. Since the Tang Dynasty, every period, there are famous painters, specializing in landscape painting. Despite their different backgrounds, qualities, schools of thought, methods, etc.; however, are able to use ink, color, skills, flexible management, serious depiction, is the beauty of the natural scenery, gladly jumped on the paper, in fact, the same, majestic, chiaroscuro.

Three, bird and flower painting

Chinese bird and flower painting is colorful and fascinating. It is classified as a specialized discipline of Chinese painting art together with landscape and figure painting. Bird and flower painting in a broad sense, should include birds, birds, animals, insects, fish and so on.