Chinese painting is a unique traditional painting form in my country. It uses brushes and rice paper as carriers. The themes are generally divided into three categories: figures, landscapes, and flowers and birds. It is integrated with Chinese poetry, calligraphy, and seals to create It is presented to people as a way of expressing the emotions of scholar-bureaucrats in ancient China. In the long historical development process, Chinese painting has formed its own unique aesthetic standards and language of formal beauty, which represents the aesthetic taste of the Chinese people.
(1) The image beauty of Chinese painting
The beauty in life is always expressed in vivid and concrete forms, which can be accepted by human senses and has certain ornamental value. People enjoy physical and mental pleasure while appreciating beauty. As a carrier of beauty, Chinese painting also has this function. Special tools are used to express people's emotions, make the appreciators resonate, and complete the transmission of beauty.
Whether it is the subtlety and delicacy of the flowers and birds of the Song Dynasty or the carefree brushstrokes of the landscapes of the Yuan Dynasty, they all reflect the aesthetic taste and artistic beauty of Chinese painting. Ancient literati and officials vividly expressed their personal emotional world through Chinese paintings. Chinese painting is the result of artists refining, processing and summarizing various images in real life. Chinese painting has experienced a long development and change, but the idea of ??"drawing from life with form" has always been throughout the development process of Chinese painting. By the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xie He's Six Methods also repeatedly emphasized "drawing from life with shapes and adding colors according to the categories". It can be seen that the image of image has always penetrated into the creation of Chinese paintings in every era.
(2) Unique tools, materials and expression techniques
As a traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy also has a unique set of creative tools including: pen, ink, paper, Inkstone. Among them, the expressive power of the brush has been very dynamic from ancient times to the present. The ancients said: "The brush is soft but strangely raw" is a classic summary of the great advantages of the brush compared with other painting tools. Due to the advantages of tools, Chinese painting attaches great importance to the power of lines. Through the nuances of ups and downs in the process of writing, the lines can be slow, sharp, light, or heavy. The application techniques of the brush are rich and diverse, such as middle, side, hidden, exposed, lifted, pressed, paused, square, round, quick, etc., which give the picture a dynamic and vitality that cannot be matched by other art categories. Thus creating an ever-changing visual image. Coupled with the application of unique pigments in Chinese painting, it is the icing on the cake. This gives Chinese painting a unique literati sentiment. The ink lines that closely adhere to the shapes in flowers and birds; the hemp and raindrops in the landscape; and Wu Daozi's "Wu belt in the wind" are all the result of the full use of the brush. The clouds on the paper, the ravines in the painting, the sound of wind in the brush, make us hope for the natural scenery. Therefore, a good Chinese painting requires the combination of pen, paper, color, hands, eyes and heart.
(3) Composition and format of Chinese painting
The artistic beauty of Chinese painting is also reflected in its unique composition. There are many types of compositions in Chinese paintings, and there are no fixed requirements for compositions. The creators mainly choose the composition form based on the needs of expressing emotions in the picture. Composition is also a manifestation of formal beauty. The importance of composition is also reflected in Shaykh's Six Laws, namely "Operational Position". Specific aesthetic effects and emotional expressions can be enhanced by selecting the location of the depicted scenery. Taking Song Dynasty painting as an example, Fan Kuan, a painter from the Northern Song Dynasty, was good at panoramic composition. His representative work "Travel to Streams and Mountains" creates a different kind of beautiful enjoyment for viewers because of its perfect use of panoramic monumental composition. The landscape paintings of Ma Yuan and Xia Gui of the Southern Song Dynasty adopted the opposite composition mode to Fan Kuan's, and achieved completely different effects, all reflecting the sadness of the broken mountains and rivers of the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be seen that composition, as an important formal beauty in painting, plays an important role.
The artistic beauty of Chinese painting is also reflected in the use of appropriate formats to express corresponding content. There are various formats of Chinese paintings, which can be divided into vertical scrolls, screen strips, hand scrolls, horizontal batches, lenses, fans, albums, etc. When creating, the painter can freely choose the painting format according to the painting theme and expression method, so that the work can touch the hearts of the viewers more. Some sketches of flowers and birds in the Song Dynasty were mostly presented in the form of circular fans, which not only had practical value but also fully reflected the small and exquisite characteristics of the pictures. However, the landscape paintings of the Yuan Dynasty were mostly large-scale vertical scrolls, which expressed very different thoughts and feelings. For example, Ni Zan's "Picture of Autumn at the Fishing Village" rationally uses the vertical scroll format to fully express his tranquil and relieved mood. Various formats extend the expressive power of Chinese painting and are one of the important features of the artistic beauty of Chinese painting.