Classic and novel way of painting

Branding: commonly known as branding, also known as "hot flowers". A folk traditional decorative craft. With a hot iron skewer, in the fan bone, comb, sunflower fan, wooden furniture, wooden pieces of iron out a variety of characters, landscape flowers, birds and animals and other patterns. Historically, Nanyang, Henan Province is more famous.

Branding is said to have originated in the Qin Dynasty, but there is no evidence and historical data. According to folklore, it was first seen at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Legend has it that at that time in Nanyang City, there was a branding artisan surnamed Li Wen, is known far and wide branding masters, whether it is a ruler, chopsticks, or cane, fan pendant, after he branded hot, a variety of characters, birds, landscapes, beasts, lifelike, vivid, on paper, exquisite, ingenious, known as the king of the branding flower. He is loyal, kind-hearted, opened a storefront in the city, a hundred miles around people know, high visibility. Legend has it that when "Wang Mang whisked Liu Xiu" (Nanyang folklore), Li Wen had saved Liu Xiu and sent a branded gourd to him as a traveling allowance, Liu Xiu was not grateful, and since then, after a thousand years of hard work, he has never sold the branded gourd. In 25 AD, Liu Xiu called the emperor, still do not forget the branded flower king's life-saving grace, after visiting him that is declared into the capital, giving silver thousands of two, and sealed "branding king", and the Nanyang branded flowers as tribute for the court. From then on, Nanyang branding flower will flourish and become famous all over the world. The story of "King of Branded Flowers" has been passed down to this day. According to the record, the Qing Guangxu three years (AD 1877), good at painting the Nanyang people Zhao Xing three in a smoking opium, after the addiction, the sudden painting Xing, to burn red smoke skewer instead of the pen in the smoke on the pole hand branding hot painting, get a small product, happy, and then in other wood play on the ShiYi, were successful, with the study, over time, on the grinding of a whole set of branding process. His branding works also gradually become a gift between officials and nobles, even as Nanyang's tribute into the Qing Palace, some branding products are quite favored by the royal relatives. Later Zhao Xing San received four disciples, the eldest disciple Li Fanzhi can write and paint, proficient in a variety of colors, skillful, specializing in figures; the second disciple Qiu Yiting is good at Bogu; the third disciple Yang Diankui specializing in birds and flowers; the fourth disciple Zhang Xifan is the only one who leads the landscape of the trend.

Color splash paintings: the superiority of color splash paintings is its localized effect! When we look closely at the localization, we will find that "subtle as a mustard", "soft and fine as silk" even if it is a large area of the picture, the same is rich in change, there is no "dead ink" of the picture appeared. The naturally formed picture effect is dwarfed by any advanced "artificial strokes". However, it is impossible not to carry out artificial processing, the so-called "unity of heaven and man" may be the reason. Splash color painting technique created by Zhang Daqian in his later years, "Zhang Daqian in the painting of a wide range of scope, the range of the broad, the depth of the work, the talent of the high, the refinement of the hard, beyond the speed of the self-expectation of the far, the conceit of the high, the achievements of the big, whether you like him or not, have to admit that he is not but one of the modern big, but also the history of the whole of the big in the history of the painting. "

Zhang Daqian's ink-splashing technique is to wet the picture first, and then slowly put the heavy ink into it, either by pulling the paper or by using a big brush to guide it, so as to make the image of the mountainous terrain. Its characteristic is that the picture has the effect of flowing, sinking, fainting, and other abstract and automatic expressions, and must be added one at a time, followed by cleaning up and writing before it can be completed. Especially in his later years, he combined the ink and color splash with the earlier chapped lines to create a masterpiece; combining Chinese and Western styles, his paintings are split between the figurative and the abstract, creating a new style of painting for the times. Therefore, what Zhang Daqian created is the Chinese version of ink and color splash, which is not equivalent to the Western Abstract Expressionism. As Zhang Daqian himself said, "If a person can melt the strengths of Western painting into Chinese painting, it should look completely Chinese, without leaving the slightest appearance of Western painting." In fact, it is a semi-automatic technique to paint the traditional boneless painting or green landscape. Although this technique has been used in ancient Chinese tradition, Zhang Daqian's ink splash obviously has its own originality, especially the kind of splash of color that does not leave blank space all over the painting, which is rich in strong modern meaning. He tends to use ink as a base color, and then in the ink will dry at the right time, will be dry stone green, stone green overlapping splash in the ink on the dry juice, and sometimes can also be used to drag the introduction of brushes, so that the color and the ink halo into a gas, to avoid the traces of raw and hard to put together. Once dry, the effect of each picture is different, there is a flow of fainting, there are also ShenZhi stacks, there are mottled, there are also muddy no trace, and then, again and again, upside down review, and gradually in the mind sprouts out of the gullies and ravines and streams, arrangement of the house, the road, adding boats, bridges, and other high priests. Generally need to wait for the color ink dry, to be able to open up in the chaos of the landscape, often take time, there is a moment can not be completed, and even after a few years to consider the appropriate layout, and then embellished to complete.

Zhang Daqian used opaque stone green and stone green as the main colors of his paintings, and occasionally applied red, gold, and white. The overall color sense of the picture in the gorgeous show calm, his color effect and method, are all in the Chinese tradition, the past traditional painting, in the big moss point or rice point, there has been a cover to stone green, stone green point method, in the ink above the black to highlight more stone green, stone green color of the degree of vividness, but only applied to a small area. Zhang Daqian in Dunhuang during the period, copying the heavy Dunhuang murals, a large number of colorful and rich color. Therefore, before he was forty-five years old, he had already mastered all kinds of pigments, especially the properties and effects of mineral opaque colors such as stone green and stone green. He also thought that he had "a unique eye" and could "directly create what the ancients did not", and this "directly create what the ancients did not" meant that he was able to use Shiqing as if it were ink and wash. To splash color and outline, let the imagination have more space to move, writing and guessing the intention, transporting the feelings to imitate the scene, in the seeming and not like between, to get the God beyond the interest of the sky.

Glass painting: glass painting by the Qing dynasty during the Qianlong period by Italian painters into China's craft techniques, glass painting has a high artistic appreciation and collection value, the Qianlong period of flat glass imported or from the product price is quite expensive, according to the price of the Qianlong period of time, a square meter of imported flat glass, silver up to fifteen taels, plus the painter is more expensive. Therefore, the early glass painting is very rare and precious, today it is difficult to find.

Glass painting in the Qing Dynasty is now nearly extinct, surviving in kind is rare, so the history of the preserved precious, glass painting method is difficult, the picture is pleasing to the eye, especially the painting of ladies, is a rare boutique. Has a very high collection value.

Glass painting is different from the paper painting, painting should be reversed, so that the other side to see the painting is positive. The process of glass painting is complicated, and the next process can only be carried out after the first process is completed. In addition, glass painting is about cleanliness and vividness, and it takes decades to achieve this state. Painting on rice paper, you can paint a few paintings a day, while the completion of a glass painting at least one week, and can only be created in the summer, because the winter temperature is low, the paint adhesion is poor. Painting glass painting, the pigment to use glue and mixing, mixing pigments also have to pay attention to, mixing thick painting laborious, mixing thin pigment will flow along the glass. After the main body is painted, the remaining space needs to be painted slowly with the finger, so that the painting will be vivid. Tian Zaimao has been practicing his art for decades and has created a large number of works, among which ancient figures, centerpieces, and bird and flower bar screens are the most prominent. Because of Tian Zaimao's dedication to folk art, in 2009, he was included in the local government "non-heritage" glass painting representative inheritor.