What are the aesthetic characteristics of China's traditional painting?

The aesthetic characteristics of China's traditional painting are: vivid in form, with both form and spirit, paying attention to brushwork in bone method and giving priority to ink in color.

1, writing God in form, with both form and spirit. Chinese painting pays attention to verve and pursues artistic conception, and always requires "form" to express "spirit". "Form" is secondary and "God" is primary. "God" refers to the vitality, vivid charm and essential characteristics of objective things.

2. Give priority to line and ink, pay attention to brushwork, pursue the artistic effect of "exquisite brushwork" and pay attention to brushwork. "Bone method", also known as "bone strength", refers to the pen power contained in writing stippling, the pillar of stippling and form, and the basis of expressing expressions.

3. In terms of color, ink is the main color, emphasizing that "ink is divided into five colors" and "pure without refuting". Ink is an essential basic color of Chinese painting, which can be divided into Jiao Mo, thick ink, heavy ink, light ink and clear ink. If each ink color is used skillfully and appropriately, it will show rich changes.

4. Composition pays attention to momentum and is not bound by perspective. Composition is said to be perfect because of gaining strength and changing because of different potential. There are two kinds of composition and layout. One is tension, giving people the feeling of painting outside, and the other is convergence, giving people the feeling of painting inside.

5. Combination of poetry, painting, calligraphy and printing. The formation of tradition depends on a nation's unique historical experience, living habits and special aesthetic concepts.

History:

The history of China's painting can be traced back to the painted pottery patterns and rock paintings of Neolithic Age in primitive society. Although the original painting technique is naive, it has mastered the preliminary modeling ability, and can also pay attention to the main characteristics of animals, plants and other dynamic and static forms to express the beliefs and wishes of ancestors and beautify life.

Pre-Qin paintings have been recorded in some ancient books, such as historical figures in palaces, halls and temples in the Zhou Dynasty, lacquerware and bronze decorations in the Warring States period, and silk paintings unearthed in the State of Chu, all of which have reached a high level.

Qin and Han Dynasties were a centralized power in the early history of China, with a vast territory and strong national strength. The Silk Road has communicated the artistic exchanges between China and foreign countries, and the painting art has developed and prospered unprecedentedly.

Especially in the Han Dynasty, the wind of heavy burial prevailed, and its tomb murals, portrait bricks, portrait stones and silk paintings with burial vividly shaped realistic, historical and mythical characters, which were dynamic and plot-like, and made great achievements in reflecting real life. His painting style is often bold and bold, with flowing brushwork, rough and bold, fine and magnificent, rich in content and colorful in form.