What does the famous "three-distance method" in Chinese painting mean?

The famous "three-distance method" in Chinese painting refers to the special perspective of China's landscape painting, that is, in a painting, there can be several different perspectives to express the height, distance and flatness of the scenery.

The "sublime law" is a kind of look-up effect, which is equivalent to standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up. It is majestic, shocking and masculine, reflecting a majestic mountain.

"Flat method" is a head-up effect, which is equivalent to standing on the flat ground and looking forward, looking at the distant mountain from the near mountain, reflecting a overlooking realm and shaping the artistic effect of "the mountain is as far as head-up". "Far method" means overlooking the effect, which is equivalent to standing on the mountain and looking down. The situation is grand and the vision is broad.

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China's ancient landscape painting pursues the word "far", and the establishment of "three-far method" is the embodiment of the maturity of traditional landscape painting in China. It breaks the limitation of time and space, draws people's attention away and leads to infinite space, which fully embodies the creativity of China's landscape painting.

Three-distance method is a kind of time-space view, which depicts the scenery in the painting from different viewpoints such as looking up, looking down and looking up, breaking the limitation of observing the scenery from one viewpoint, that is, focus perspective. Heyang wen county (now wen county, Henan) is a famous painter. Six articles of Lin Zhi were compiled by Guo Si according to his father Guo's creative experience and artistic opinions.

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