History of Chinese Painting

Chinese painting has a long history and has a long history, after thousands of years of continuous enrichment, innovation and development, painters and craftsmen, mainly Han Chinese, including ethnic minorities, have created a distinctive national style and rich and colorful formal methods, forming a unique Chinese painting language system, which has an important position and influence in the Orient and even in the world's art.　The history of Chinese painting can be traced back to the Neolithic era of primitive society, colored pottery decoration and rock paintings, primitive painting skills, although na?ve, but has mastered the initial ability to shape the animals, plants and other forms of static and dynamic can be captured in the main features, to express the beliefs of the forefathers, aspirations, and for the life of the beautification of the decorative.　Pre-Qin painting has been recorded in some ancient books, such as the Palace of the Zhou Dynasty, the Hall, the temple in the historical figures, the Warring States lacquer, bronze ornamentation, the Chugoku unearthed silk paintings, etc., have reached a high level.　The Qin and Han dynasties are China's early history of the establishment of the centralized system of power, a vast territory, the country strong, the Silk Road communication between Chinese and foreign art exchanges, the art of painting unprecedented development and prosperity. Especially in the Han Dynasty, the prevalence of burial style, its tomb murals and portrait bricks and stones and burial paintings, vividly portrayed the reality, history, mythological characters, dynamic, episodic in reflecting the real life has made significant achievements. Its painting style is often grand, flowing strokes, both rough and bold, but also fine and magnificent, rich and varied content, colorful forms.　Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties period of frequent wars, people's suffering, but painting still made greater development, suffering to Buddhism provides the spread of the soil, Buddhist art flourished. Such as Xinjiang Kizil Grottoes, Gansu Maijishan Grottoes, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes have preserved a large number of murals of the period, the artistic attainments are very high. Due to the upper class on the painting of the hobby and participation, in addition to craftsmen, also emerged a number of culturally educated upper-class well-known painters, such as Gu Kaizhi. This period of popularity of metaphysics, the literati advocate floating through the free, the history of painting and painting theories and other writings began to appear, landscape painting, flower and bird painting began to sprout, this period of painting focuses on the portrayal of the state of mind and temperament of the performance of the painting of the literary subject matter is becoming increasingly popular.　During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the country was unified, the society was relatively stable, the economy was relatively prosperous, and foreign exchanges were active, which injected new opportunities into the art of painting. Although the Western style of painting in Buddhist murals was still popular, the works of Wu Daoci, Zhou Fang and others with a distinctive Central Plains style of painting prevailed, and the national style became more and more mature, and the landscape paintings and bird and flower paintings of Zhan Ziqi, Li Sixun, Wang Wei and Zhang Li Li achieved high achievements. They achieved a high level of success.　After the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the art of Chinese painting further matured and perfected a, there was a heyday, the court set up painting academy, expanding the establishment, recruiting talent, and awarded with the title, the court painting flourished for a while, the literati and scholars also regarded painting as an elegant and put forward a clear standard of aesthetics, so the painters came out in large numbers, a variety of masterpieces, and also formed a set of theory and creation of a unique system of its content, form, The content, form, and technique of the paintings were all rich and colorful, and there was a prosperous situation of multi-headed development.　During the development of painting in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, literati painting gained prominence. In terms of subject matter, landscape painting, flower and bird painting occupied an absolute position. Literati painting emphasized the expression of subjective emotions, "not seeking resemblance", "not seeking the world", not converging on the aesthetic requirements of the general public, painting to show elegance, express the pleasure of idleness, advocating the "teacher of creation", "method of the source of the heart". He advocated "learning from creation" and "following the source of the heart", emphasized the unity of human character and painting character, and paid attention to the organic integration of ink and brushwork with poetry, calligraphy, and sealing, forming a unique style of painting, and producing many outstanding painters, schools of painting, and uncountable works of excellence.　Chinese painting is an important part of Chinese culture, rooted in the soil of national culture. It does not simply stick to outward resemblance, but emphasizes more on divine resemblance. It uses brush, ink and rice paper as special materials, constructs a unique theory of perspective, boldly and freely breaks the limitations of space and time, and has a high degree of generalization and imagination. This excellent technique and means not only make traditional Chinese painting unique in its artistic verve, but also increasingly borrowed and absorbed by the world's modern art.