Thangka painting is a unique painting art form in Tibetan culture, and its pigments are also unique. Thangka painters divide all the pigments needed for Thangka painting into nine categories: earth, stone, water, fire, wood, grass, flowers, bones and precious stones. These natural raw materials are carefully collected, processed and mixed to make pigments with different colors and effects in Thangka paintings.
Traditional Thangka drawing has strict requirements and complicated procedures, which must be carried out in accordance with the rituals in the scriptures and the requirements of the guru, including a whole set of technological processes such as pre-drawing ceremony, making canvas, composition and drawing, coloring and dyeing, setting hook lines, laying gold and silver, opening eyes, sewing and mounting. It takes a long time to make a thangka, from half a year to more than ten years.
The Artistic School of Thangka's Painting
1, Nepal School of Painting
Nepalese painting school was mainly popular in 1 1 century to13rd century. Songzan Gambo married Bhrikuti Devi of Nepal, and Nepalese artists accompanied the princess to Tibet. They integrated the artistic style of Nepal into the local art of Tibet and formed the Nepal School in Tangka. The painting direction of this genre is mainly warm colors, and the main statue in the center of the picture occupies a very prominent position. Dharma statues are arranged in neat little squares around, with simple statues, stiff characters, few clothes and thin decoration.
2. Qi Gang School of Painting
Qi Gang School of Painting was founded by Yadui Qiuganba. Tianpai was mainly popular in the Wei-Zang area in the 3rd century A.D./KLOC-0. On the one hand, it inherited the painting charm of Tubo period and partition period, on the other hand, it also absorbed some characteristics of Nepalese painting style, mainly because the composition not only inherited the composition of Nepalese painting school, but also changed slightly.