The ancients felt that painting landscapes needed to have the concept of seeing the big in the small, and painted the endless rivers and mountains on the rice paper within easy reach. How to achieve the big in the small, first of all, you need the ability to summarize, secondly, you need the ability to observe, and finally you need superb techniques to turn ideas into drawings. These abilities require repeated practice, and in order to better master the technique, many ancient painters liked to draw album sketches. They experimented with possibilities by creating works of smaller size.
This album is the work of the late Ming dynasty painter Lan Ying, who modeled on Huang Gongwang's long scrolls of landscapes and learned to compose pen and ink. He inscribed an inscription on the picture, telling everyone bluntly about his creative intentions. I want people to know about his approach to learning and his artistic philosophy.
Lan Ying Landscape Album
To retain the momentum of natural landscapes, painters need to use their brains in creation. Ink rendering and ink dot line highlight the painter's unbridled freedom, from the temperament to find the relevance of painting and nature, which is a good creative direction. There are details, there are techniques, there is density, there is rhythm, take the spirit of natural landscapes, there is a world in the painting.
Lan Ying's study of Huang Gongwang also began from the above aspects, experienced his creative ideas, and after speculation and analysis, learned the secrets that the famous masters did not pass on. It is very simple to say that it is very simple to see the big in the small, but it is too difficult in the specific creation. How a mountain and a river are depicted, how a bridge and a tree are interspersed, and how the floating clouds and flowing water are expressed all depend on the painter's perception of natural landscapes.
Lan Ying Landscape Album Partial
Lan Ying retains the momentum of the mountain, emphasizes the beauty of the mountain, grasps the decorative technique, and he artistically processes the beauty of nature to express the large realm of small works. Yes, the small in the big refers not only to the painter's creative method, but also to summarize the painter's artistic philosophy. There are hills in the heart, and the pen seems to have a god. In order to simulate the natural atmosphere of the painter's landscape, it is necessary to abandon some figurative restoration techniques and add some lyrical brush and ink. In this way, the work has a thoughtful nature and a reason to be unforgettable.
There are some differences between decorative techniques and formalism, decorative more emphasis on beauty, formalism is synonymous with rigidity. Lan Ying is quite free in pen and ink skills and creative thought, and he has found decorative techniques in order to practice the artistic concept of seeing the big in the small. It was his choice, not his flaw.
Lan Ying Landscape Album Partial
Based on the linear structure, through the three-distance method, drawing the weather of the great rivers and rivers, Lan Ying's creation is quite successful. He found a way to express the aesthetic taste of the masses, and he made his works have a wider audience. The artistic concept of seeing the big in the small runs through the development process of traditional landscape painting, and in the hands of Lan Ying's generation of painters, there are more popular forms of expression.
Through the beauty of the picture, he let ordinary people begin to pay attention to the concept of painting and learn to understand the creative ideas of painters. This is the great thing about Lan Ying, who has a heart willing to spread the concept of art and hopes to sow the seeds of art. Popularize first, then improve, alluding to his identity as a teacher.
Lan Ying Landscape Album Partial
Lan Ying was a famous painter and an art educator in the late Ming Dynasty. He has many disciples, and he paints his own feelings into his works, hoping to carry forward the traditional techniques and hope that there will be people in the painting world.