What is Chinese painting?

The term Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty, which mainly refers to scroll painting painted on silk, rice paper and silk and framed.

Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China. It is painted on silk or paper with a brush dipped in water, ink and color. Tools and materials include brush, ink, pigment of traditional Chinese painting, rice paper, silk, etc. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc., and techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork.

in terms of content and artistic creation, Chinese painting embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society and politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art related to it.

Chinese painting pays attention to conception, pays attention to intentional writing first and thinking in images, and pays attention to the unity of subjective and objective artistic images. Modeling is not limited to superficial resemblance, but emphasizes "the beauty lies between resemblance and dissimilarity" and "dissimilarity". Its image-building aims to convey the expression and emotion of objects and the painter's subjective feelings.

Therefore, the parts that are not essential or have little connection with the image features can be discarded, while those parts that can reflect the facial features can be portrayed by exaggeration or even deformation.

In terms of composition, Chinese painting emphasizes management. It is not based on a fixed space or time, but breaks the limitation of time and space in a flexible way, rearranging the objects in different time and space according to the painter's subjective feelings and artistic creation rules, and constructing a space-time realm in the painter's mind. As a result, rain and snow, four seasons, ancient and modern figures can appear in the same painting.