Chinese painting can be divided into three categories: landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting and figure painting. Landscape painting, also known as landscape painting, mainly shows natural scenery; The main objects of flower-and-bird painting are flowers, birds, fish, insects, vegetables, fruits, grass, birds and so on. There are three painting methods: meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork and concurrent brushwork. Figure painting is the earliest form of Chinese painting, which can be divided into two types: costume figure painting and modern figure painting.
The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty, which mainly refers to scroll painting painted on silk, rice paper and silk and framed. Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, which uses brush strokes dipped in water, ink and color on silk or paper. Tools and materials include brushes, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. And techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork.
Chinese painting embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society and its related politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation.
Chinese painting can be simply divided into several categories:
According to the theme: landscape, flowers and birds, people.
According to the form: hand scroll, banner, banner, barrel, nave, album, fan.
According to the meaning of the pen: meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork (big freehand brushwork, small freehand brushwork), half-time work and half-writing.
According to color and ink: line drawing, ink painting, light crimson, turquoise, heavy color and resplendent.
According to techniques: deboning, splashing ink, splashing color.
To sum up, Chinese painting, referred to as "Chinese painting", is a pearl in China's art treasure house, a wonderful flower in the world art gallery, and the crystallization of the Chinese nation's high wisdom, outstanding talent and hard work.
The first kind of landscape painting. It is a painting form that depicts mountains and rivers, waterfalls, rivers, pastoral scenery and tree pavilions with pen and ink. It shows the harmony and beauty of nature, and each stroke contains the painter's feelings and thoughts. Therefore, landscape painting only pays attention to the artistic conception of the painted landscape, but not to the modeling of the painted landscape.
The second kind of flower-and-bird painting. It is a form of painting that depicts animals, fish, insects and feathered birds with pen and ink. It shows the harmonious relationship between various creatures and nature. There are many kinds of painted objects, which are deeply loved by people.
The third kind of figure painting. It is a form of painting that depicts characters with pen and ink. Divided into ancient costume figures and modern costume figures. It shows the relationship between people in human life. Figure painting is more complicated, because people have body movements and thoughts, so it is more difficult to draw.
These three painting forms have continued to this day in the course of thousands of years of painting in China, with remarkable achievements and dazzling.