Landscape painting pays attention to the unity of heaven and man, both gods and forms, the heart has everything, and the creative methods and mentality of the sky are imaginative. "The nature of nature, the work of creation, or the scenery of a hundred miles within a few feet; east, west, south, north, and south, wan'er, spring, summer, autumn and winter are all born in the pen."
The theory of Chinese painting in the early past has such a profound exposition, which shows that the creation of Chinese painting is a relatively elegant and advanced art. "The creation of foreign teachers, the source of the heart in the middle". In addition to the necessary copying of the paintings of the predecessors, and honestly learning the traditional brush and ink techniques and composition methods to enhance and improve their own creative skills, it is necessary to sketch and create natural objects. How to write freehand on the scenery, to create an artistic conception between the similar and the unlike, but it is a scientific art.
I think that the painter's pen and ink should be infiltrated by an emotional expression of their reflection and understanding of life and even the world, their pen and ink interest is not bound by the outside world or natural objects, in the realistic scenery, they are looking for "dilute the void and far, small bridges and flowing water, quiet and interesting," but also like a fantasy paradise, or the pursuit of "Zen noise forest is quieter, birdsong mountains are more quiet" "thousands of mountains and birds flying, thousands of paths of people disappear, lonely boats, fishing in the snow of the Cold River"; or the expression of "open and close, Magnificent, majestic, lofty mountains, clouds moving" emphasis on the momentum of the picture. However, no matter what kind of expression method is adopted and what kind of artistic effect is achieved, it is an artist's understanding of the objects of nature and the artistic reconstruction of the environment, and it is an artistic interpretation and artistic pursuit of the "beauty" of the natural world. In the face of the thousands of weather conditions of nature, what the artist's pen shows is not limited to its mountain and stone, a grass and a tree, a flower and a bird, and it is not simply copied and copied of natural scenes, but to find its own spiritual mood in the dazzling natural scenery, to convey the meaning with the pen, to express the intention, to pin his own feelings; to achieve arbitrary use of pen and ink, to retract freely; while reasonably creating contradictions and opposites on the picture, he also cleverly unifies the contradictions effectively, and seeks to "beauty" between the similar and the unlikely. Artistic foothold, to complete the artistic pursuit and management of "beauty".
Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, had a poetic cloud that "on paintings in the form of resemblance, see neighbors with children; poems must be composed of this poem, and it is certain that non-poets are not poets". That is to say: when talking about painting, blindly boasting about how its paintings resemble, its views are the same as those of children and children, and can only be neighbors with children; when composing poetry, only realistic, no depth of thought, no imagination space, no artistic conception, then the poems written are light and tasteless, and they are certainly not a good poet. This poem directly reflects Su Dongpo's painting concept of not seeking similarity but seeking artistic conception.
In fact, after the Jin and Tang Dynasties and even the Song Dynasty, with the continuous development of literati painting, the world paid more attention to the expression of emotions, emphasizing the importance of the painter's temperament, endowment, cultivation, travel and other aspects, while paying more attention to freehand on the basis of realism, and striving to explore innovative forms of expression and methods. In modern calligraphy and painting, everyone has no shortage of high theories on the freehand of objects and images. For example, qi Baishi, a master of painting, once said: When painting, it is necessary to change the law into an inability, so that it can reach the distance between similarity and dissimilarity. Youyun: He who learns from me is born, and he who is like me dies. Master Huang Binhong pointed out more directly: "Those who are absolutely similar to objects and images are paintings that deceive the world and steal names; those who never resemble objects often use their names to write freehand, fish eyes are mixed with pearls, and they also deceive the world's paintings; but those who are absolutely similar to objects are by no means similar to objects, this is a real painting." "
It seems that this is the original face of the phenomenon of scenery, the inherent expression of objects; between similarity and dissimilarity, this is the artistic sublimation of the artist's understanding of objects, it is an idea of things, it is invisible and elusive, it is a higher artistic effect. It is even the realm that artists have devoted their lives to pursuing.
Several masters have expounded the "between the similarity and the dissimilarity" of the object from different angles, which also explains a truth: the painter observes the objective object and then subtly, makes the object a high degree of selection and generalization, so that the object of the eye is transformed into the image in the chest, and the image in the chest is not the scene in the eye, the pen in the hand goes randomly with the thought pen, in the process of creation, there is no skill, the law is impossible, looking for the invisible in the form, creating a wonderful artistic conception between the similar and the unlike, reaching the mind is forgotten, The hand forgets the pen, the object and I forget, and the mind is both in the realm. This is a kind of elegant artistic creation and artistic enjoyment, and the viewer must feel the same way. I think maybe this is the highest state of art.