? Chinese painting stands in the world of art with its unique national aesthetic characteristics. The connotative beauty of landscape painting is not only a core category of Chinese painting, but also a realm that Chinese landscape painters strive to pursue. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the landscape painter Wang Wei included the poem "Looking at the autumn clouds, the gods are flying, the spring breeze is coming, and the thoughts are vast." in his "Xu Hua" to emphasize the beauty of "delight" and "emotion" in the creation of landscape paintings. Shi Tao once said: "Mountains and rivers represent mountains and rivers, and mountains and rivers meet gods and become traces." It refers to the "unity of nature and man", and reaching the state of "forgetting both things and myself" is to achieve the beauty of the meaning of landscape painting. Reach a high level.
Implication is the soul of Chinese landscape painting. It is a state that the painter finally forms through artistic processing by refining and summarizing his life experience. This state, relying on the limited visual perceptual image, induces associations in the "combination of reality and reality", "expressive portrayal" and "vivid charm", so that the appreciator can be infected and produce a passionate response in the "endless state". Realize the blending of scenes, and then understand its "external meaning" and even "external connotation".
Chinese landscape painting has a long history. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, landscape painting and landscape theory appeared. Zong Bing proposed in his "Preface to Painting Landscapes" that "one should be able to sense the spirit, and the spirit is beyond reason". Create ideas. But at that time, landscape painting did not yet have an independent status. As an independent painting discipline, landscape painting separated from character stories in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. By the Song and Yuan Dynasties, landscape paintings expanded beyond nature and became richer in content. They began to pay attention to the meaning in the paintings. They used other mountains and rivers to write about themselves, entertain themselves with landscapes, and create eternity. When the painter creates works based on natural mountains and rivers, he seeks to blend scenes with each other. The paintings contain my realm and meaning.
By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, landscape painting had become "humanized and natural". As the saying goes, "The mountain comes from me, I come from the mountain, what I am is me, and I am." This is Chinese landscape painting The beauty of unique meaning.