China's landscape painting is a kind of poetic painting, which is symbolic and lyrical. Poetry printing is an important part of humanistic painting. Calligraphy is the construction and support of painting language.
Characters come down in one continuous line, and only through the visual substitution of "writing" instead of "painting" can there be images and freehand brushwork spirit. This shows the importance of calligraphy in Chinese painting.
In landscape painting, poetry inscription is very particular, not to fill the blank, but to form a harmonious whole. Therefore, the position, number of words and font of the inscription are very particular. The content of the inscription can be long or short, but it must be related to the content of the picture. The shortest time to write a painting is only the time and the author's name, and you can also write down the place where you draw. If the title is long, usually write a poem or a sentence. A long poem can be a quatrain, a metrical poem, a short poem, or even a long tune and arrangement, but it can't be separated from the theme and thought of the picture.
Today, taking landscape painting as an example, we discuss the significance and benefits of using poems or couplets to inscribe landscape paintings:
Once a landscape painting is created, if you can add a poem or couplet with ancient and modern characters and picture themes, it will add interest and elegance. A good painting and a good poem complement each other. For example, Zhang Daqian's work "Sailing"
The plain is desolate and the water is long, and the spring scenery of the guest room will stop.
A young flower can be thin, and it was once sent to a boat when I was a child.
After adding poetry, the whole picture is elegant and interesting.
Such as Feng Jiantang's landscape painting poems:
When Cangshan saw it, the peaks were not together.
But if you are weak, why compare them?
The combination of this poem and this painting shows the painter's lofty character, lofty ambition and more humble moral feelings.
For example, Feng Jiantang's poem on the exhibits in the celebration of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China:
The fog broke the mountain glow, and the pine wind waterfall rang several times.
Gan Kun has long had lofty sentiments, and if he wants to realize it, he must climb up with a stick.
This poem tells the brilliant theory that the painter loves the country and the party and wishes the motherland prosperity, and highly praises "practice makes true knowledge" and "practice is the only criterion for testing truth". Spoke the artist's heart.