What is realistic Chinese painting?

Introduction to realistic painting:

Realistic Chinese painting, referred to as realistic painting, is one of the three categories of Chinese painting alongside meticulous painting and freehand painting. At the same time, realistic painting is also a type of painting in Chinese painting that corresponds to oil painting in Western painting. It emphasizes color, structure, light and shadow, and can depict objects delicately and realistically.

If realistic paintings are subdivided according to content, they can also be divided into realistic figure paintings, realistic flower and bird paintings, realistic landscape paintings, etc.

Historical significance:

?Realistic painting is the result of the integration of China’s excellent culture and the world’s excellent culture. It absorbs the excellent elements of oil painting, watercolor, gouache, sketch and other types of painting in the Western painting system, and combines it with the artistic conception of traditional Chinese painting, thereby adding a beautiful and wonderful flower to the Chinese art garden, and has a great influence on the cultural rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Significance.

The emergence of realistic paintings marks that Chinese culture has once again shown its strong tolerance in the field of painting art, just as Chinese culture has been showing for thousands of years: collision, struggle, and compatibility. , transcendence... so endlessly, stumbling forward in the wind and rain.

Realistic painting finally gave Chinese painting an artistic language that can be understood by both the East and the West, allowing Chinese painting to truly face the future and go global.

Representative figures:

?The founder of meticulous painting is Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty, the founder of freehand painting is Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty, and the founder of realistic painting is the contemporary Li Shaobai.

Huizong’s use of Chinese painting made the mountains and rivers tremble; the ivy’s use of Chinese painting once made Bai Shi wish to be a humble dog; Shaobai’s use of Chinese painting made the country’s excellence shine across the five continents... These three people, They are all good at poetry and writing, and they are erudite and thoughtful, so they can understand everything, carry on the past and open up the future, and create a new trend for five hundred years.