Understanding the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese painting will sharpen our intuition, combine imagination with appreciation, and help us appreciate the cultural background, charm, charm and edifying feelings of the works. China's paintings and calligraphy were produced in a special and ancient civilized environment. For thousands of years, they have experienced a long process from enlightenment, naivety, maturity to sublimation, and from practicality to art. It is no exaggeration to say that books and paintings are one of the most concentrated manifestations of the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation. In a sense, they mark the highest level of China civilization in the fields of classical culture and art. China and even the eastern world's views on the nature of the universe, attitudes towards social personnel, and the pursuit of beauty and eternity are all reflected in China's paintings, which have won the recognition of millions of China people, friends from the East and even friends from all over the world. The inscriptions, calligraphy books, mysterious, brilliant and elegant paintings of the past dynasties are the essence of our nation-painting and calligraphy artists (including folk artists with unknown surnames) record their mental journey with the subject and object world in an aesthetic way. This antithesis sometimes reaches the height of philosophy, that is, between the vertical and horizontal strokes of "if you sit, if you walk, if you fly, if you move", and in the brushwork of "vigorous and ethereal", it contains feelings and also embodies "Tao", showing the experience of personality and even the life universe. It can be said that every word and painting embodies the mentality of the nation and the times and accumulates the cultural layer of the national spirit. As an art and the crystallization of China people's psychological consciousness, the art of calligraphy and painting is self-evident. But not everyone can appreciate a higher level of calligraphy and painting. It is so rich and long, exquisite and wonderful! To understand and feel the mysterious pottery painting, the hideous bronze decoration, the silent Buddha statue, the literati painting outside the pen and ink, and the highly abstract and flowing calligraphy stippling structure all require certain knowledge and cultivation. Appreciating China's paintings and calligraphy makes the appreciator hold a certain subjective attitude, which requires emotion and imagination. Need rational and accurate understanding and judgment. Combining the two is the author's attempt to provide readers with articles that are both appreciative and informative.
Chinese painting takes brush, ink, mineral pigment, silk and rice paper as tools (raw materials), and it is divided into strokes and freehand brushwork in expression. Figure painting emphasizes "vividness", and through the expression of facial expressions (especially eyes), body language and environment, it expresses the spirit in form and highlights the inner world of the characters. Landscape painting emphasizes "poetic and picturesque" to express the majestic and rough or beautiful mountain style, and the misty curtain-the artistic conception creation of scene blending, that is, the beauty of nature and the interest of literati (China culture) are closely combined, and the structural picture of high, flat and far (or three-dimensional) method is adopted, with white as black. Flower-and-bird painting expresses ambition by holding things, and expresses emotion by borrowing things; Praise life, praise nature-express your "mind". Pay attention to the color of pen and ink: 1, the brushwork is vigorous and powerful, or dignified and infiltrated, or dry and fast; Or the middle, or the back, or the side, or the pen, or the pen. 2. Multi-level changes in ink method (five inks and six colors-with the paper color, such as focus, thickness, weight, lightness and clearness), or ink accumulation, ink interruption or ink splashing. 3. The color is perceptual color such as color matching, emphasizing ink and calm (the color is mainly ink bone, and light color is applied), and the color is meticulous and heavy. On the whole, it pursues the integration of traditional culture (internal) and linear pen and ink interest (external), that is, the expression of poetic and artistic meaning and "verve" and "verve". In modeling, we don't stick to the simple (realistic) appearance, but pay attention to the inner "charm" of the object and the "expression" of the painter. Composition and perspective are different from western painting, and the painter's subjective intention is expressed by a multi-angle and multi-viewpoint (dynamic) "scattered perspective" So how can we appreciate it? I think we can appreciate Chinese painting from the following aspects: China's history, cultural background, literature and art (poetry) and pen and ink skills, as well as the charm of Chinese painting color.