Internal painting in Hengshui is a painting technique for the inner wall of snuff bottles and a unique folk craft of Han nationality. Mainly distributed in Hengshui City and its surrounding areas in Hebei Province. Its exquisite craftsmanship is unusual, and "an inch of land has the potential of thousands of miles", which is regarded as incredible by the outside world. The internal painting of "Ji School" originated in Hengshui. Hengshui is named as "the hometown of painting art in China" by culture because of its unique art.
Internal painting in Hengshui is a painting technique for the inner wall of snuff bottles and a unique folk craft of Han nationality. Mainly distributed in Hengshui City and its surrounding areas in Hebei Province. Its exquisite craftsmanship is unusual, and "an inch of land has the potential of thousands of miles", which is regarded as incredible by the outside world. The internal painting of "Ji School" originated in Hengshui. Hengshui is named as "the hometown of painting art in China" by culture because of its unique art.
The artistic features of Ji School's inner paintings are diverse styles, ingenious layout, far-reaching ideas, accurate modeling, fine dyeing and elegant colors. There are both types of traditional Chinese painting, which are mainly based on the color of traditional Chinese painting, and expressions that combine the color of traditional Chinese painting with the color of oil painting to imitate various types and varieties of various picture effects. The theme of Ji School's painting is good at figure painting, especially the picture of baby play and the picture of the ancient philosophers, which can best reflect the artistic characteristics of Ji School's snuff bottle. The style of "Ji School Inner Painting" can be summarized as: profound conception, rigorous composition, rich line drawing techniques, harmonious color setting, rich calligraphy and painting, and appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
The art of Hengshui internal painting originated in Hengshui City, Hebei Province, and Hengshui internal painting is also called Ji School internal painting. Master Wang Xisan is the originator of Ji Pai's inner painting. The tools used are small brushes with metal hooks, and the pigments are Chinese painting pigments, oil painting pigments and acrylic pigments.
The artistic features of Ji School's inner paintings are diverse styles, ingenious layout, far-reaching ideas, accurate modeling, fine dyeing and elegant colors. There are both types of traditional Chinese painting, which are mainly based on the color of traditional Chinese painting, and expressions that combine the color of traditional Chinese painting with the color of oil painting to imitate various types and varieties of various picture effects. Reflected in the types of painting: Chinese painting, calligraphy, oil painting, printmaking, decorative painting and so on. And subject matter: people, landscapes, animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, portraits, still life, scenery, etc.
On the basis of inheriting the elegance of Beijing School's Magnolia officinalis, Hengshui's internal painting combines the exquisite and smooth traditional painting methods of Lu School, and introduces the techniques of rubbing, rubbing, dyeing, dots, hooks and silk into the internal painting, giving full play to the internal painting techniques. Later, oil painting was added to the technique of internal painting, which broke the limitation of traditional watercolor painting and made the picture, shape and spirit of internal painting perfect, which was called the feat of "combining Chinese and western".