Aesthetic Characteristics of China's Paintings

The aesthetic features of China's paintings are as follows:

(1) Specificity of coating tool materials.

Chinese painting uses water as a blending agent, ink as the main pigment and brush as the main tool to paint on rice paper or cotton silk. "Pen and ink" has not only become the core of China's technique, but also the pillar of China's painting theory and the symbol of China's painting form change.

Make the ink color produce rich and subtle chromaticity changes such as thick, light, dry and wet. The combination of pen and ink creates a rich and varied formal beauty.

(2) Observation and expression of scatter perspective.

Scatter perspective method can fully show all aspects of the scene with a large spatial span, so that image creation and picture composition have greater freedom.

(3) Pay attention to the use of blanks. For example, people do not draw or draw less background, fish and shrimp do not draw water, and the sky, clouds and water surface in landscape paintings are often represented by blank spaces.

(4) Painting is organically combined with poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting. Chinese painting usually has inscriptions and calligraphy, which integrates poetry, painting, calligraphy and seal cutting. There are paintings in poems and poems in paintings, which have unique artistic charm. Literati painters are often poets and calligraphers, who push the combination of poetry, calligraphy and seal to a perfect artistic realm.