1, the ancients pursued artistic conception creation
China's ancient art, whether poetry, calligraphy, painting or music, has a pursuit of artistic conception. For example, the poem Silent Night by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, depicts a lonely homesickness, and the majestic artistic conception of Fan Kuan The Journey to the West, a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, impacts the hearts of every viewer. Those who are successful in poetry and painting contain artistic conception in their works. It can be said that the artistic conception of China's classical art exists like a soul, and a work without artistic conception is like a work without a soul and becomes incomplete.
The artistic conception of an excellent poem is embodied in every word, sentence and connotation of the poem, which makes every reader feel brought to the scene described in the poem after reading it. The same is true of good paintings. Whether realistic or freehand, there is artistic conception in it, so that every viewer can see that after painting, in addition to the enjoyment of beauty, there is also an immersive feeling. The artistic conception of China's ancient poems and paintings comes down in one continuous line, all of which originated from the creator's pursuit of artistic perfection. It is precisely because of this that the imagination of painters painting poems and poets writing poems appeared in ancient times.
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2. Artistic creation comes from life.
Since ancient times, art has paid more attention to life than life. Poetry and painting also belong to two categories of art, and naturally there is no escape from this law. If artistic conception is the soul of poetry and painting, then life is the foundation of poetry and painting. The Buddha statues created by Saint Wu Daozi, even if painted, are the products of artistic processing based on ordinary people. Whether God is an artificial god or God creates man has been debated since ancient times, but none of us have ever seen a real god, and it is even more impossible for artists to create art directly based on God.
The creation of ancient poems and paintings can be divided into landscapes, flowers and birds, figures and so on. No matter what kind of theme, you need to put yourself in the shoes to create works handed down from generation to generation. The Tang Dynasty is the peak of poetry, and it can be described as a generation of famous poets. Their peerless poems are all from other people's perspectives, and there are few works that are alarmist or praise virtue. For example, Li Bai's peerless masterpiece "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" is the poet Li Bai's deep affection for Lushan Mountain.
The same is true of paintings of the same period. For example, Han Gan, a famous pommel horse painter in Tang Dynasty, went deep into the stables to observe and became unique. It can be seen that poetry and painting need to tell the truth and go deep into life in order to create peerless masterpieces. At this point, poetry and painting are also interlinked.