Generally, there are even screens, ranging from two screens to four screens, six screens, eight screens, twelve screens and sixteen screens, among which four screens are more popular. The four landscapes are "four", which have rich meanings in China traditional culture, such as four seasons, four seasons, four directions, four seas, four virtues, four truths and four books.
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The four screens of mountains and rivers are displayed flexibly, and they can often occupy a wall when hung up, which is magnificent and quite imposing. Therefore, after the Song Dynasty, it developed to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the form was very mature. For example, large-scale landscape paintings can be painted in sections, divided into single pieces and combined into one; Spring, summer, autumn and winter are more important forms of landscape four screens, which many painters like; It is also very popular to mount four vertical works with similar painting styles into four screens. This format requires the unity and variability of the work, which can be integrated from beginning to end.
For example, one painting with four screens in Chinese painting is a unique expression of Chinese painting, which interprets the beauty of landscapes, flowers and birds, people and other things in a specific and limited space. With the painter's original ecological cognition and understanding of life, he draws a harmonious melody with passion, and expresses his feelings with charm and form, so that the viewer can appreciate the truth, reasonableness and pleasing to the eye, and the ordinary life theme is full of expressive artistic charm.
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