“Poems are invisible paintings, and paintings are tangible poems.” This is probably the basis for why Chinese paintings must have inscriptions. Bonsai is known as "three-dimensional painting, silent poetry", so it is also very important to give a title that fits the artistic conception of bonsai. A suitable title is a magnification of the artistic conception of the bonsai and plays a finishing touch. It helps guide the viewer to enter the connotation of bonsai from the appearance of bonsai, understand the creator's concept and generate enthusiasm, and truly understand bonsai.
Traditional Chinese bonsai pursues one stone, one water, one tree and one tree. Under the conception and modeling of the creator, it presents a series of landscape paintings. A good bonsai is an artistic representation of a natural painting. However, due to differences in education, aesthetics, personality, taste, etc., people who appreciate bonsai may not be able to understand the artistic conception that the bonsai expresses. , and a suitable title can guide viewers to enjoy the resonance of artistic emotions brought by bonsai.
There are many categories of bonsai titles, but they all have one thing in common, that is, the words should be concise, accurate and appropriate, and avoid being obscure or pretending to be profound. Create a bonsai and give it a title that you are satisfied with. For the creator, as long as it can reflect the artistic conception that the bonsai wants to express, it is a good bonsai and a good title. But this is far from being called a successful work. It needs to be tested and recognized by viewers before it can be called a successful work.
Nowadays, many bonsai makers and enthusiasts ask them to make a bonsai and explain the concept and artistic conception. They can certainly pick it up easily, but they find it difficult to create a title suitable for the work. You know, naming your work depends on your knowledge, experience, literary accomplishment, etc. Only with a deep accumulation in these aspects can you have rich imagination and creativity. By appreciating the works of those bonsai masters, you will find that their works and their titles are extremely consistent and suitable. This is the reason.
The title of a bonsai is not randomly chosen, but is created based on the appearance of the bonsai and the artistic conception it expresses. It not only combines the shape and spirit of the bonsai, but also expresses the appearance and connotation of the bonsai. . Therefore, for bonsai makers and enthusiasts, they must continue to learn and improve, observe more in life, enrich their experiences, communicate and learn more with peers, and study excellent bonsai and titled works to deepen their own Only with knowledge and experience can you create a good title.
The titles of outstanding bonsai works throughout the ages can be roughly divided into: titles based on the image of the bonsai, titles based on the conception of the bonsai, titles based on historical sites, titles based on literary allusions, titles based on poems and famous paintings, and titles based on the natural world Flowers, birds, fish, insects, trees, rocks, mountains and rivers are used to inscribe names, etc. Regardless of whether the title has a traditional charm or a combination of modern emotions, the artistic conception of the bonsai must be expressed through the meaning of the title in order to become a qualified title.
As mentioned above, if 10 people come up with ideas for the title of a bonsai, there may be 10 different titles. This is because the individual emotions are different, and the artistic conception to be expressed is also different. It will be different. As long as these titles fit the works, there is no distinction between them. There is definitely a huge difference between the artistic emotions and values ??of the ancients and our modern people. The titles of ancient bonsais can be chosen casually due to the relationship between poems, songs, and articles, while modern people use more popular names. Create titles in easy-to-understand language. Only bonsai titles recognized by the public are the best.
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