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What are the three ways to compose a Chinese painting?

There are three types of composition in Chinese painting, horizontal line composition, tilted composition and free-form composition.

1. Horizontal Line Composition

This is to spread all the images on a horizontal line. This composition gives a sense of solemnity, seriousness, easy to create a monotonous feeling, but can give a person calm, stable and open, wide sense. This composition method is the same as the characteristics of young children's painting performance, and therefore more in line with the visual perception of young children, aesthetic habits. Composition should pay attention to the image of the sparse and dense changes and size changes.

2, tilt composition

is the main image placed near a diagonal line, so that the picture is full of changes and a sense of movement. This kind of composition is suitable for the expression of sports, dance, games and other subjects.

3, free-form composition

Free-form composition is like the scattered perspective composition used in Chinese painting, free and flexible, rich and varied. Composition, to reflect the sparse and dense, size and overall coordination. The distance between images should be avoided.

Introduction to Chinese Painting:

The main type of traditional Chinese painting. From the point of view of art history, the Chinese paintings before the Republic of China we all collectively called ancient paintings. Chinese painting in ancient times no definite name, generally called Danqing, mainly refers to the painting on silk, rice paper, silk and framed scroll painting. Since modern times, in order to distinguish from the Western imported oil painting (also known as Western painting) and other foreign paintings and called Chinese painting, referred to as "national painting".

It is a painting created with the unique Chinese brushes, ink and pigments, in accordance with the long-established forms of expression and artistic rules.

Chinese painting, in terms of ideological content and artistic creation, reflects the social consciousness and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation, and centrally embodies the Chinese people's understanding of nature, society and the political, philosophical, religious, moral, literary and artistic aspects associated with it.