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Chinese Painting, Connotations beyond Description
Traditional Chinese painting is a unique art in world
art field. It adopts special brush and paper as tools, painting ink as paint,
using wonderful expressional methods according to Chinese aesthetic habits.
Traditional Chinese painting has long history and excellent traditions, which
forms its own unique system in world art field. It is an important part of our
country¡¯s traditional culture as well as the precious treasure of Chinese
people.
Traditional Chinese painting has a long history. Generally speaking, works
before Tang Dynasty mainly focus on the reflection of people¡¯s activities,
forming a prime time of figure painting. In the middle of Tang Dynasty,
paintings in landscape and flower & bird began to be popular. Works with the
theme of forest and rural area can free you from the hustle and bustle of the
world and enable you to enter a peaceful land, so landscape painting is favored
by scholars and officials. Flowers, plants, stones, birds and beasts in the
paintings are living creatures in the mountains, full of vitality and also
attractive to many people. Therefore, paintings of landscape and flower &
bird started to be popular after figure painting. The three kinds of paintings
form the three main categories of traditional Chinese painting.
The emperors and aristocrats of Tang and Song Dynasties are the important
painting supporters, so the art developed in such an environment had very
serious political meaning with its style tending to be magnificent. In Song
Dynasty, there was art academy with complete systems in the palace. Esp. Emperor
Huizong, who was good at painting, treated artists very well. He also set up
organizations to cultivate talents. So the activities of art academy reached the
zenith during this period.
Compared with western paintings, traditional Chinese painting has its own
obvious characteristics. Traditional Chinese painting emphasizes on ¡°the spirit
delivery through form¡± and pursues the feeling of ¡°wonder lies in the similarity
and dissimilarity¡±. According to the artistic techniques, traditional Chinese
paintings have three techniques: meticulous, freehand and combination of the
former two. Meticulous painting is characterized by detailed and fine brushwork;
freehand painting is marked by the freehand brushwork. Meticulous painting
focuses on beautiful lines and fine works; completely opposite to meticulous
painting, ignoring lines and paying special attention to the theme, freehand
painting needs high generalization ability. It aims at reflecting the theme with
fewer drawings. The brushwork should be accurate, familiar and skillful, so that
the theme can be reflected in the brushwork. The combinational of meticulous and
freehand painting is the comprehensive application of the two techniques.
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