Chinese Painting Aesthetic Education Lesson by Mr. Lin Xi｜Painting Flowers and Feathers, Painting the Truth of Beauty

Painting an object over and over again, using different materials and methods to speculate and ponder, letting the flowers, green leaves and birds reveal some truths about the marvelous world. --- Lin Xi

Seeing the truth of beauty in flowers and feathers

There is always something that makes us naturally happy when we see it.

Like the bloom of a flower, the fullness of a peach, the luster of a feather on a bird, they have no practical value and have nothing to do with survival, but they are all pleasing to the heart.

Ancient people say, a flower is a world, a leaf is a rudraksha. Flowers, birds, grass, trees, fruits, although it is a subtle thing, but each into the world of self-sufficiency, with its own heavenly and heavenly interest.

So they will be in the painting, painting birds and flowers, painting exotic flowers and rocks, but also painting rare birds. Fascinated by the tiny world, try to paint a flower, a leaf, a bird, a fist of stone, not only to depict the small things before the eyes, but also, more importantly, to paint the lively infinite vitality.

So, in the past, some people called the paintings of "flowers, birds, fruits and games" as "sketching". What they painted was the reality in their hearts, and what they wrote was the vitality of all things. They were striving to explore the mystery and to express their deep feelings within the space of a square inch.

Cheng Yi of the Song Dynasty said, "Everything is a reason, as a matter of fact, although small, all have a reason.

The more intimate, the more ordinary, the more subtle, the better.

Saw a peach, pink and lovely, full of juice. I'm going to draw it down.

When I saw a bird fly by, its feathers reflected a metallic luster. Draw it.

A flower in a vase, each moment looks different, the petals have shallow veins, blooming purely brilliant, all lovely, reminiscent of a moment in time. Also painted.

In our daily life, flowers, birds, fruit and play is the most common things, it is in the night and day relative, learn to pay attention to, learn to perceive, feel a flower in the four seasons of the tiny changes in the morning and evening, to appreciate a small bird from the head to the end of each piece of beautiful plume.

Like Huang Tingjian said in his poem, "The skin is peeled off, but there is only the truth".

When we paint a flower, a bird, or a fruit with total concentration and dedication, we gain a new perspective on life and the world, and truly see the beauty and vitality that lurks in everything, which we have never realized in the past.

Seeing the vitality, painting the vitality, the management of a painting is the same, the management of a beautiful life, is also the same.

From April 20, registration will begin for Mr. Lin Xi's Chinese Painting Aesthetic Education Class "Flower, Bird, Fruit and Play", where you can join Mr. Lin Xi in painting the feathers of flowers and the truth of beauty.

In this course, each lesson is still composed of two parts: Painting - Flower, Bird and Fruit Play X Aesthetic Education - Lifelong Learning

Painting: centered around Flower, Bird and Fruit Play, savoring the tradition of writing and refining the technique of sketching, accompanied by the appreciation of ancient paintings and the sharing of art history.

Lin Xi, the teacher of the classroom, will use the form of sketching + copying to progress step by step. Mr. Lin Xi believes that we learn techniques from tradition, such as how to use the brush in our hands better, how to master the relationship between ink and water, how to depict a leaf, how to express a flower, how to outline the line, how to apply color...but all these techniques and patterns are only truly for my use when they are finally incorporated into my own paintings. Therefore, both copying the ancients, but also sketching application, from the accumulation of thousands of years of painting tradition to learn the techniques, as a way to express what we see and feel at the moment, to paint a unique painting belongs to their own.

Aesthetics: A course on lifelong learning, based on thematic units on aesthetics, with practical exercises to master the learning method.

Lin Xi, the teacher of the Xuan Tong classroom, will also use beauty as the soil to plant the seeds of lifelong learning in the aesthetic part of the course. In this course, along with the study of Chinese painting, Lin Xi will take art history as a starting point, extensively absorb the aesthetic spirit of different times, overcome the shackles of a single standard answer mode of thinking, and use aesthetic theme units, combined with practical learning and operation, to ignite the passion of exploring, discovering, and thinking in the heart, matched with the corresponding academic methods, to improve efficiency, and nourish the inspiration, and plant seeds of lifelong learning for the soul. The seeds of lifelong learning are planted in the mind.

We hope that in the course of "Flowers, Birds, Fruits and Games", students can watch all things come alive together and make life like a painting, with a lively and interesting atmosphere.