China's landscape paintings were produced in the Jin and Song Dynasties, and there are countless famous masterpieces. At the same time, with the development of landscape painting in various periods to a certain height, painting theory appeared, so these painting theory theories are waiting for our future generations to study in depth.
I have skimmed some of them recently, and I am deeply touched. From Gu Kaizhi's Yuntai Mountain to Zong Bing's Preface to Landscape and Wang Wei's Painting Spectrum: from his calligraphy to Guo's Lin Zhi: from Dong Qichang's "North-South Clan Theory" to Shi Tao's "Quotations" and so on ... No matter whether painters focus on technique theory, spiritualism or the combination of the two, they are all famous sayings summarized in past dynasties. No matter which faction it is, it should be widely involved and thoroughly studied. ?
Gu Kaizhi's Painting Yuntai Mountain is more about recording the conception and composition of landscape painting, including characters' stories. Compared with Zong Bing's Preface to Painting Landscape, Preface to Painting Landscape is the earliest theory of landscape painting, which embodies the Tao with landscape and has important spiritual significance. "Tao" is a word that often appears in the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Tao is invisible, invisible and intangible; It is tangible, it is the beginning and root of all things in the world. It can be seen that landscape painting is not only a form of expressing mountains and rivers, but also a way of understanding. His idea of "observing the Tao with a clear mind" has been highly praised by painters of all ages and has become the painter's mantra.
From Zong Bing's Preface to Shi Tao's Quotations, it is another height of landscape painting theory. Quotations consists of eighteen chapters, each of which is discussed around a central idea. Then the first chapter is about "one painting", which is the aesthetic essence of landscape painting. Shi Tao's painting aesthetics is based on "one painting theory". "Swire can't, too simple, too simple, the law is established. Where the law is, it is there. The painter is the foundation and the root of everything ... "(Painting in Shi Tao's quotations) shows that Shi Tao is greatly influenced by Taoist thought. A painting is the Tao, and there is nothing. As soon as the painting goes on, it can be seen that the relationship between landscape painting and philosophy is very close, and it also witnessed the profoundness of China's landscape painting. Therefore, as far as the technique theory is concerned, it is described in detail in Chapter 5, Chapter 6 and so on, so I won't give examples here.
After writing this article, I hope more painting lovers can have a deeper understanding of ancient painting theory. Just like practicing martial arts, external skills are important, but we should also pay attention to the cultivation of internal skills.
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