The traditional story of ink painting

The history of ink painting, which began in the Tang Dynasty, became in the Five Dynasties and flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, is that ink landscape painting is a kind of painting, more often called China traditional painting, and is actually a model of landscape Chinese painting. The most basic ink landscape painting is only water and ink, white and black. However, the upgraded ink landscape painting is also a meticulous flower-and-bird painting with colorful colors. The latter is sometimes called color ink painting. In Chinese painting, ink, one of the unique raw materials of Chinese painting, is used as raw material to draw different shades (black, white and gray) such as light ink, light ink, dry ink, wet ink and Jiao Mo, which has a unique charm and is called "calligraphy", resulting in a painting form with pen and ink as the main body.

A kind of traditional Chinese painting refers to a painting made of pure ink strokes, which is simple, representative and vivid. It is said that it originated in the Tang Dynasty, formed in the Five Dynasties, flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and continued to develop in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern times. Give full play to the efficacy of ink painting with techniques as the main body. "Ink is color" means that the change of ink depth is the change of color scale, and "ink is color" means that color can be replaced by multi-dimensional ink chromaticity. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo's "Tu Song" said: "The south of the Yangtze River spread to Ju Ran, and the light ink and light orchid became one." That is to say, ink landscape painting. In the Tang Dynasty, people painted mountains and rivers with wet pens, which had the effect of "water fainting and ink printing". In the Yuan Dynasty, people began to use dry pen, and the light ink changed a lot, with the performance effect of "giving color at the same time". In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei clearly put forward that "ink painting is the best", and later generations followed suit. Ink landscape painting has always occupied a decisive position in the history of China painting.

"Ink-and-wash Landscape Painting" composed of cigarettes and ink unique to China has become a unique genre of Chinese painting. There are five levels of ink: making ink, light ink, light ink, extremely light ink and burnt ink, that is, Jiao Mo (original ink)-light ink-heavy ink-light ink-clear ink. Ink is a cool color, and the painting composed of five kinds of ink should have a cold feeling and the tone should be dim. But why does a good "ink and wash landscape painting" make people feel warm and won't feel its tone dim? Mainly because a good painting makes reasonable use of the white ground (vacancy) to compare and blend with the brightness of black and cold, so people have a sense of temperature between cold and hot. Moreover, good cigarette ink is not dark ink.