Text/Feng Haitao Photo/Zhang Zhiyong
The painting has yin and yang, "the pen is yang, the ink is yin". Therefore, whether the pen is clumsy or ethereal, it needs to be dynamic; whether it is burnt ink or light ink, it must be static as ink. Whether there is an imbalance between the pen or ink, the yin and yang are not adjusted! Then the picture must be sick! The painting has yin and yang, the qi rhyme is yang, and the heart is yin. Therefore, the rhyme needs to flow; the heart needs to be gentle. If the qi rhymes sluggishly, the heart of the text is agitated, and the picture is also yin and yang imbalance, it will be dull and tasteless. Chinese brush and ink, taking the yin and yang of the law, the condensed heart and qi rhyme of the pen and ink are also manifested by yin and yang. So Chinese painters for Chinese philosophy also!
Zhang Zhiyong landscape painting
That is to say, Chinese painting is born of yin and yang, then its picture is naturally in line with nature as the right path. All natural things are born and nurtured by yin and yang, so the picture and image of Chinese painting should also take the yin and yang two qi of the illusion of the object as the core. Thus, the theory of freehand Chinese painting appears. It has also laid the foundation for the position of pen and ink in the field of Chinese painting. This is also why Chinese painting is called freehand, and Chinese painting is evaluated with pen and ink to set the standard.
The painter paints, "a stroke contains yin and yang, there is a distinction between movement and stillness, and there is a dependence on movement and stillness." In order to create a charm and a literary heart. Instead, pen is pen and ink is ink. That is to say, there is ink in the pen and pen in the ink. Only in this way can we truly achieve yin and yang coordination. Isn't the yin and yang in the Tai Chi diagram the yin and the yang and the yin in the yang? This again fully proves the philosophical identity of Chinese painting. In a painting, it is not a single yin and yang, but there is also yin and yang in the yin and yang, interlocking and endless.
From the above, painting Chinese painting, do not understand Chinese culture, failed to eat Chinese culture thoroughly, integrated, the painting is painted with brush, rice paper, ink color, can not be called Chinese painting, can only be called a painting. Because since Chinese painting became an independent art form, it has its independent cultural attributes, that is, philosophical forms. Therefore, if the picture is only for work, or the use of Western techniques, and lose its independent Oriental philosophical attributes, no matter how exquisite and delicate the painting is, it cannot be called Chinese painting. It can only be regarded as a painting painted with the tools of painting Chinese painting.