An uneducated painter's paintings are just a sham.
The word culture is quite abstract. It is all-encompassing and colorful, so it is difficult to give it an accurate definition. Throughout the ages, many scholars have defined culture, but they have not given a definition that most people are convinced.
if we narrow down the scope of culture and talk about it in the field of art, we can still find out the essence of culture more easily.
In the painting circle, especially in the traditional Chinese painting circle, when someone sees a painter's works with both form and spirit, they look very tasteful, artistic and attractive, and they will say that the painter is very cultured.
The culture here refers to cultivation, which includes not only intellectual and aesthetic cultivation, but also moral and personality cultivation.
The cultivation of knowledge means that a Chinese painter must not only be a painter, but also be a "generalist", and his off-painting skills must reach a certain level. Because Chinese painting is closely related to traditional culture, poetry, calligraphy, seal cutting and aesthetics in traditional culture have a direct promotion effect on Chinese painting. If a painter has high knowledge and cultivation in these aspects, he will certainly be able to draw tasteful paintings.
when a Chinese painting is created, it needs to be inscribed, and the inscription itself is done by calligraphy. If you don't know calligraphy and lack the standard of calligraphy, then the inscription on the picture will definitely be terrible, which will undoubtedly reduce the overall taste and artistic value of Chinese painting.
Furthermore, the inscribed words should be poetic, concise and prominent, which can bring the finishing touch to the picture content. To accomplish this, we must speak with literary accomplishment.
Otherwise, it is not easy for the viewer to understand what the theme is to be expressed by the painter, and it is not easy to enter the aesthetic level to feel the artistic conception of the work.
Many great painters, such as Wang Wei, Su Shi, Mi Fei, Zhao Ziang, Xu Wei, Wu Changshuo, etc., can not only give beautiful names to Chinese paintings, but also inscribe pictures with a poem or a beautiful passage, so that viewers can not only feel the painter's interest in brushwork and composition skills through concrete pictures, but also understand the painter's creative intentions and thoughts and feelings through inscribing.
seal cutting is also very important to Chinese painting. In addition to the artist's name stamp, a Chinese painting also needs to be stamped with some spare stamps. How many stamps should be stamped? Where to build it? There are rules.
generally speaking, you can't just take a leisure chapter to cover it. The text content on the leisure chapter must be consistent with the theme of the picture. The position of the chapter should not be a distraction, and it should play a role in adjusting the center of gravity of the picture.
Moral and personality cultivation means that a painter must be a good person before painting well. Because character is a painting, spreading positive feelings and deep understanding of righteousness in paintings conforms to the values of public order and good customs. Only such works are good works and can stand the test of history.
There are many painters with good painting skills but poor personality in history. Although their works can bring them temporary fame and fortune, they can't get a chance to go down in history. History is cruel, and all painters who can't do kung fu outside painting will be eliminated. Therefore, from a certain level, personality cultivation is more important than cultural cultivation.
On the other hand, if a painter has no cultivation and culture, is his painting still a painting?
It can be said that this kind of painting can barely be regarded as a painting, but it lacks all the elements of painting aesthetic value, artistic value and cultural value. It may be ok to use it as a facade for yourself and deceive laymen, but it is definitely not possible to let others recognize, learn and collect it.
this kind of painting will reduce the viewer's aesthetic accomplishment and appreciation ability, which is not beneficial to the development of painting art, but harmful to the improvement of personal artistic skills.