Why learn calligraphy when learning Chinese painting?

The relationship between calligraphy and painting is one of the most important propositions in the history of China fine arts, which has been discussed by many famous artists. Chinese painting and China's calligraphy are closely related, and their appearance and development complement each other. It's called. Homologous painting and calligraphy? In the early days, people used simple symbols and figures to convey information, and painted fish, frogs, birds, flowers, people and other patterns on pottery. This was the earliest painting, and the earliest hieroglyphics were also drawn with lines.

Calligraphy and painting are homologous

This little painting gradually evolved into today's Chinese characters. As a tool of ancestral memory, pictures and words are homologous. China's calligraphy and painting art based on words and pictures must be of the same origin. In this regard, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the History of Famous Paintings and the Origin of Narrative Paintings gave us a sharp summary, determined the traces of birds and turtles, and then determined the shapes of calligraphy and characters. Characters can't be hidden, and neither can monsters. It probably means that we can't see its shape, so there is a picture.

The basic skills are the same.

The artistic pursuit of China's painting and calligraphy lies not only in the beauty of form, but also in the artistic conception of lyric art, the homology of expression forms and the superficial application of pen and ink, but also in the painting and calligraphy art, both of which have the same spiritual source and artistic conception. The focus of China's traditional painting is not appearance, but charm. In China's traditional paintings, freehand brushwork landscapes and flowers and birds are appreciated all over the world because of their precious essence. If painting has no charm, it is just ink, not painting.

In the artistic creation of calligraphy, it is usually necessary to borrow objects to create, and finally express artistic ideas in the abstract form of words themselves. It can be seen that calligraphy art and painting are only the source of pursuing the same interests and the essence of different forms of things, and the great beauty of the world. It can also be said that the two have the same essence and the same source of interests. Obviously, this not only gives your painting a beautiful appearance, but also practices the ability to control the brush so that it can be within a certain elastic range.