Common colors of Chinese painting pigments (most commonly used)

There are: blue, gamboge, ochre, vermilion, rouge, azurite, stone green and white powder.

Pigments in traditional Chinese painting include clean, ancient, elegant and elegant tones, and at the same time, they also have a magnificent sense of color and a wide variety. The pigments in Chinese painting mainly include plant color, mineral color and chemical color.

Plant color, also known as grass color, such as gamboge, cyanine, rouge, rose and so on. There is a sense of transparency. Mineral color is also called stone color, such as azurite, stone green, stone yellow, sand and so on. , with thick and rich color sense effect.

Chemical color is a traditional Chinese painting pigment made of chemical raw materials, which is widely used by painters. In addition, the white powder is synthetic, even if zinc 100. It is really difficult to use and master colors. To convey a vivid portrayal with the beauty of color, we should take bright, elegant, simple and heavy colors as the top, and fire, turbidity, vulgarity, dirty, stiff and dark as the bottom.

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The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty. People in the Han Dynasty thought that China lived in heaven and earth, so he called it China. China's paintings were abbreviated as "Chinese paintings". Mainly refers to scroll paintings painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted.

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

Chinese painting embodies the ancients' understanding of nature, society, politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation. An excellent Chinese painting should be a perfect combination of poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, and an inseparable whole.

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