Chinese Ink Art

During his visit to China, you will have the opportunity to learn traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. By visiting the old town of Lijiang, a city of paradise scenic Guilin, or by visiting the Huangshan Mountain statement, you will find here the most popular thing is to buy the scroll of Chinese painting. You will also find it extremely interesting and intriguing to paint with soft brushes. If you are a lover of Chinese art, do not forget to take some of these animals at home.

Chinese painting is also called traditional Chinese painting. As its name implies, Chinese painting is painted with the traditional tools of Chinese painting, according to Standard Chinese aesthetics. Chinese painting has developed a unique style.

Chinese painting is painted on rice paper or silk with fine brushes, Chinese ink and dye Chinese painting. In terms of themes, Chinese painting can be divided into three branches: the human figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. So ladies painting, painting of mountains and paint insects and fish belonging to the three branches, respectively.
On the techniques of painting, a traditional Chinese painting is characterized by fine brushwork and realistic attention to detail, the other is freehand brush.

The legend of Chinese painting:

In 1949, the first works were discovered in a tomb of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). The work was a painting on silk of human figures, dragons and phoenixes. This is the first work on silk ever discovered in China, it measures approximately 30cm long by 20cm wide.

From this and other early paintings on silk, it can be easy to see that the ancients were already familiar with the art of writing or painting brush strokes to show the strength and elegance if date is desired. The paintings of this period are strongly religious or mythological in themes.

Paintings on paper appeared much later than those on silk for the simple reason that the invention of silk paper preceded by a long historical period.

In 1964, when a tomb dating from the Jin Dynasty (265-420 AD) was excavated at Astana in Tinpan, Xinjiang, paint color on paper was discovered. It shows, above the sun, moon and the Big Dipper and, below, the owner of the tomb sitting cross-legged on a couch and holding a variety of entertainment to hand. A vivid portrait of the life lines of a feudal landowner, measuring 106.5cm long and 47cm high, it is the only known painting on paper of the antiquity of its kind in China.

The classification of Chinese painting:

Figure Painting Chinese: The style of paintings depicting human figures. "Figure", in short, is a major genre in Chinese painting. Chinese painting is usually divided into Buddhist and Taoist Painting Pictures Male, Portrait, genre painting and history painting, story, etc. Figure strives to paint realistic and accurate representation of the character's personality, both outlook and spirit. In modern times, figure painting emphasizes more on "learning from nature", assimilates Western techniques, and has made progress in modeling and coloring.

Chinese Landscape Painting, publishes regularly mountains, water or fog that are symbolic. Water and fog giving happiness and good fortune to the mountains is a long life. Some artists like to include people, animals and houses in the paint trying to convey a sense of long life and good fortune in unison with the soul and nature coming together.

Chinese Bird-and-flower painting: flowers and birds, are leading figures from Neolithic ceramics painted their works have passed the metaphors and images of artists for more than a thousand years. For example, the representative of pines.