Chinese Painting, Connotations beyond Description

Compared with western paintings, traditional Chinese painting has its own obvious characteristics. Traditional Chinese painting emphasizes on "the spirit delivery through form" and pursues the feeling of "wonder lies in the similarity and dissimilarity". According to the artistic techniques, traditional Chinese paintings have three techniques: meticulous, freehand and combination of the former two. Meticulous painting is characterized by detailed and fine brushwork; freehand painting is marked by the freehand brushwork. Meticulous painting focuses on beautiful lines and fine works; completely opposite to meticulous painting, ignoring lines and paying special attention to the theme, freehand painting needs high generalization ability. It aims at reflecting the theme with fewer drawings. The brushwork should be accurate, familiar and skillful, so that the theme can be reflected in the brushwork. The combinational of meticulous and freehand painting is the comprehensive application of the two techniques. 

Since traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy have much in common in tools and brushes, they are closely related to each other. The ancient people had already had the theory of "painting and calligraphy share the same origin". When scholar artists were dominant in Yuan Dynasty, they also believed the concept that painting and calligraphy shared the same origin and advocated study painting by starting from calligraphy. The relationship between poem and painting formed with the gradually increasing influence of literature upon painting. The melting of poem and painting was guided by scholars and officials, which also affected the art academy. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty once tested the artist with poems to see whether the artist could describe the wonderful artistic conception in the poems.

 

 

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