How good is the aesthetic of ancient Chinese painting?
In "Roselle Futu", Gu Kaizhi gives Cao Zhi's poems to a magnificent imagination: Roselle has a pulse of emotion, a flowing belt, and a lingbo. In the silence, a touching love drama has been staged...
"Han Palace Spring Xiaotu", as the "first long volume of the heavy colored ladies", draws all the scenes of the court's seemingly busy and idle characters, playing chess, ironing, embroidery, and making children... All come to life.
A "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty", the scene displayed is more vivid than the photo, as if a pyrotechnic set was rushed through the Northern Song Dynasty, which made people fascinated...
This is just a few of the "Top Ten Famous Paintings in China", China's thousands of years of art creation, the inheritance is orderly, dazzling, beautiful.
The faience pottery with fish on the face, the ancient bronze ware, the clumsy and full portrait brick, the vivid wu Daozi figure painting, the vivid Zhao Gong pen flower and bird painting, the ancient and desolate Ni Zhan ink landscape...
Over the past 5,000 years in China, there are countless cultural and artistic treasures waiting for you to discover.
On weekends, I visited art galleries and museums, savored those rare famous paintings and artifacts, listened to the narrators tell the history and stories behind them, and spent the whole day feeling satisfied.
Before going to bed in the afternoon, hold a small book that combines art, aesthetics and professionalism, flip through and read it, so that the ordinary time can be illuminated with beauty.
Over time, people's temperament is more elegant and calm, not only aesthetically more advanced, but also looking at life with less triviality and more beauty.
Today, I will recommend this "Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art" that must meet your heart and poke your aesthetics to you - more than 300 paintings of Huanghuang, elegant inheritance, into the 24 dynasties and 5,000 years of beauty.
It is published by CITIC Publishing House, compiled by Yang Qi, a professor at Tsinghua University, and the achievements of 50 years of teaching are collected in one volume, taking you to rub a Tsinghua art class.
A book, in addition to 300+ Chinese ancient paintings, but also to appreciate, for you to establish a systematic knowledge of ancient painting theory.
It makes the treasures of Chinese art at your fingertips, leads you into a deeper and more systematic artistic aesthetic, and makes you meticulous and elegant every day.
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For many non-art majors, this book is enough to get started – it can be used as the first lesson in the history of Chinese art.
It takes the dynasty as the context, from prehistory to modern times, a panoramic bird's eye view of the artistic development of 24 dynasties, which has both a macro historical background and interesting facts about the lives of famous artists;
It uses a variety of artworks as flesh and blood, with 300+ famous paintings, by 50 people:
Petroglyphs, pottery patterns, court paintings, landscape paintings, figure paintings, genre paintings, flower and bird paintings...
Read it and you'll find that the world of art is so colorful, and each era has its own artistic symbol:
We set off during the Summer Shang Zhou and sounded the beginning of the liturgical music with bronze vessels.
Passing through the Qin and Han Dynasties, strolling to the epoch-making Wei and Jin Dynasties, painting began to change from slight to fine, with qualitative changes.
Here, look at Kaizhi's "Writing God in Form", look at the beginning of landscape painting, and see the introduction of Buddhist art.
Walking to the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the art is also brilliant and beautiful:
Look at Wu Daozi's "Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls", sweeping with a pen, like a whirlwind;
Look at the Sinicized Dunhuang flying sky, the belt is fluttering, elegant and beautiful;
Look at the court figure paintings, Tang Dynasty ladies pink makeup jade, rich and beautiful...
Then came the golden age of art, the Song Dynasty, and landscape painting, flower and bird painting went to dominate. Song Huizong, who "has the quietness of art and the crown of ancient and modern", has a high degree of achievement in calligraphy and painting.
In the Ming Dynasty, the literati took the Yuan Si as the object of study, and the "Wu School" that later became the tradition of literati painting appeared.
In the Qing Dynasty, you can witness the struggle between the four monks and the four kings, the collision of Chinese and Western art...
Finally, in modern times, it ushered in the rebirth of traditional painting.
Closing the last page of this book, the beauty of that kind of breathless, lingering art has seeped into your life.
24 dynasties, 50 masters, 300 classic masterpieces, when you read them, it is as if you are strolling through an artistic feast that has lasted for 5,000 years...
When you come across a painting that you like very much and want to study it for a good artistic common sense, you find yourself trapped in complicated concepts:
Landscapes, pens, flowers and birds, literati, court, ink, green... Where do these concepts begin?
Professor Yang Qi, through decades of teaching practice, has explored a set of systematic and efficient entry methods.
In this book, he not only quotes the scriptures, hooks and shenxuan essentials, but also supplements them with wild anecdotes, and uses vivid and dexterous language to "supplement" you with a wonderful general knowledge lesson in the history of Chinese art.
Reading this book, it is really like a good teacher standing at the table, taking you to savor every inch of the famous painting, take this dazzling "Qingming River Map":
Yang Qi divided it into six parts to explain: suburban scenery, road into the city, river scenery, hongqiao up and down, in front of the city tower, bustling scene.
Different pictures, different character customs, different artistic techniques... Looking closely, I understood Zhang Zeduan's wonderful pen, as if I had crossed into the Northern Song Dynasty, rushing all the way to the lively streets, full of fireworks.
Here, you gain not only knowledge, but also a unique Chinese feeling - art, which is the spiritual pursuit and philosophical precipitation Chinese for thousands of years.
Understanding Chinese art is like returning to the spiritual homeland of Chinese, which is a unique romance that belongs to the Chinese.
China in fine arts is both elegant and distant, solemn and magnificent, and we see the aesthetic taste of Chinese connected with ancient and modern times, and also see the creativity of Chinese endless beauty.
* Wang Wei 《Jiang Gan Xue Ji Tu》
For example, Wang Wei, in his landscape paintings, there are no mountains and ravines, rapids and shoals, but horizontal mountains and rivers, fishing villages.
It's like a person sitting quietly on the shore, looking at the faint distant mountains, quietly near the water, no worries, no anger, no sorrow.
The best description is probably Wang Wei's own poem:
"A lonely village under the mountain, a plateau with a single tree in the sky."
This is a beautiful experience that Western art cannot bring.
In Western aesthetics, precision, proportion and rhythm are important. However, in the Chinese aesthetic world, this is not the case.
In the book, you will understand: mysterious, blank, artistic, vivid, and the unity of heaven and man are the highest destination of beauty.
"Qi", "rhyme" and "vividness" are themselves somewhat mysterious, can not be measured by scale, there is no precise proportion, this is the philosophical pursuit of the ancients.
As Mr. Ye Lang said: "If you don't grasp the 'vivid rhyme', it is impossible to grasp the classical Chinese aesthetic system." ”
Improving aesthetics does not happen overnight, it takes time, cultivation and resonance.
Ma Yuan, "Ta Ge Tu"
Only by reading the vivid rhyme, understanding the virtual reality, reading the blank space, and understanding Chinese art can we truly enter the Chinese poetic aesthetic.
Professor Yang Qi wrote in the afterword of the book:
To understand the history of Chinese art is to understand the aesthetic beliefs engraved in the genes of Chinese, and it is also a shortcut for you to improve your aesthetic temperament.
As a book about art and beauty, it is also very strict about its own beauty, texture and design.
The cover is made of retro texture, the paper is transparent and thin, and the front and back patterns overlap and reflect the beauty of art.
The most amazing thing is that the book cover is taken down and unfolded, and it becomes a beautiful poster!
Subsequently, a very distinctive Chinese red inner seal was revealed, showing the beauty of classical. A graceful silhouette that calls for a dialogue that travels through time and space.
The inner page is made of ivory white, quality paper, which can well restore the classical Chinese rhyme of ancient paintings.
High-definition pictures are presented in large formats, important works add details, immersive appreciation of colors, lines, composition, meaning, and add painting size comparison drawings in the book.
Who knows that the 528-centimeter-long "Qingming Upper River Map" has become "petite" in front of the "Thousand Mile River Map"?
What is the scene of Tang Dynasty masterpieces such as "Step Map", "Lady Yu Chun Tu", "Lady Of the Hairpin Flower", "Emperor Map of Past Dynasties", "Ming Emperor Xingshu Map" and so on appear on one screen at the same time?
In the book, there is an exclusive limited edition folding poster, the front of which is "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and the back is a guide to the history of Chinese art, selecting the most representative works of each period.
Hanging on the wall, observing from time to time, a picture grasps the characteristics of five thousand years of art.
There is such a quaint art book, after returning home, quietly admire a traditional painting, brush away the tiredness of the day.
In the landscape painting, there is a world without interference.
The mountain is quiet for a long time, walk to the water's poor place, sit and watch the clouds rise. Travel through the landscape paintings of thousands of gullies, admire the beautiful scenery, and find a tranquility in the busy life of the city.
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