Write to everyone for the appreciation of Chinese paintings
"Understanding Chinese Painting"
Shao Shujiong
Shanghai People's Publishing House
June 2021
□ Lin Yi
Ancient Chinese painting, with its own unique painting language and consistent spirit of oriental art, is unique and has a long history. The famous relics of the Jin and Tang Dynasties still exist to this day. The change of painting methods contains the essence of history and culture, especially suitable for popularization, so that everyone knows the style and temperament of China's paintings, but the painters often have the reason that they are partial to the connoisseurs, and ordinary people like me have a rare door to enter.
Recently read a painting theory, called "Reading Chinese Painting", the content is as simple as the title of the book, the first few articles, but feel bland, unexpected, the more you read the more fascinated, cover up the aftertaste, benefit a lot.
The book was originally an audio program for the Himalayas, so the language is shallow and the length is short, I didn't think it was at first, why did I think it was good later? The author of the book, Shao Qijiong, a calligrapher and painter, an associate professor of the School of Fine Arts of Shanghai Normal University, and a master tutor, has a profound professional quality that is well used in various sections of the article, and the work has the style of "everyone's little book".
The biggest feature of the book is that it lays a coherent clue, methodically and step-by-step, the era and the individual, the style and technology, the theme and layout, the intention of the painting, the characteristics of pen and ink, and even the evaluation of the history of painting. That is to say, we do not rely on external cultural research, but closely focus on the painting itself, and paint on the painting. Shao Qi, a professor at the School of Fine Arts at Shanghai Normal University, wrote a preface to the book, calling it "beneficial to the original source of Chinese painting," and indeed.
Chinese painting is generally divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds and other disciplines, mainly using the change of line and ink color, the use of unique modeling techniques, such as hooks, wrinkles, dots, dyeing, thick, light, dry, wet, etc. to form a variety of technical forms, such as freehand, brushwork, outline, color, ink painting, etc., depicting the landscape of mountains and rivers, melons and fruits, flowers, and the world. Chinese painting has its own concept of space, not limited to the focus perspective method, not paying attention to the precision of machinery, but with the point of view of swimming, operating imagery, with the intention of pushing, to create a spiritual universe of the unity of heaven and man, the unity of things and me. Chinese painting also has the characteristics of the same origin of calligraphy and painting, which is in line with Chinese calligraphy in the use of pen and ink, bone method of freehand, mutual influence, and gradually, also with the literati poetry to achieve the integration of calligraphy and artistic conception.
Shao Weijiong reveals the cultural characteristics of Chinese painting in a simple and simple way, and promotes the general knowledge of fine arts in a natural and relaxed way. Some perspectives, indeed, are only available to those who paint, are experts without showing off, and talk to us one by one.
For example, the law of wrinkles. Shao Weijiong said that the five generations of Jing Hao's "Kuang Lu Tu" really uses the rubbing of pen and ink to make people feel the majestic natural force, which is a major breakthrough in the Chinese landscape painting technique; dong yuan's "Xia Jing Shan Pass To Be Du Tu" of the fifth dynasty created the "Phi Ma Jiao", which expresses the soft beauty of the Jiangnan landscape with layered, soft and elastic lines; the "long cloak of hemp" in the "Xiao Yi Earn Lan Ting" in the early Song Dynasty of the Fifth Dynasty used elongated ink lines to draw thick and beautiful mountain stones; and Li Tang's "Wind Map of Ten Thousand Valleys" in the Northern Song Dynasty. The use of axe splitting, the brushwork is like using an axe to split wood, there is strength, speed, ink color rendering makes the mountain with Western sketch-like light and dark effects, spatial layers and heavy three-dimensional sense.
Repeated analysis, echoing back and forth, the application and development of the method is clear. Most of the paintings in Shao Shujiong's Ermin Hall are elegant and beautiful small green, and the cover of the book is his painting "Starry Sky", which can appreciate its artistic orientation, and is especially fond of green landscape paintings.
Talking about Zhao Boju's "Autumn Color Map of Jiangshan", the warmth of the mountain stones and the emerald-like color, thick and transparent; Wang Ximeng's "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", with a refined ink line layer by layer, close to the water, sparse in the distance, this technique of painting water as dense as the thin line of the fishing net is called the "net towel method", and then flat painted with green, and then do multiple polychrome, there is a vast river water; Wen Zhengming's "Huishan Tea Party Map", the small green brushwork is thinner and more transparent, showing elegant and bright interest.
The book is a collection of techniques that are concisely explained. In addition to the above discussion, it also talks about Gu Kaizhi's "Gaogu Gossamer Sketch", Xu Xi's "Ink Falling Method", Li Gonglin's "White Painting", Xia Gui's "Dragging Mud and Water", Su Shi's "Ink Drama", Zhao Mengfu's "Flying White", Xu Wei's "Big Freehand", and Bada Shanren's "White Eyes"... All kinds of techniques, all kinds of wonderful things. There are also some comparisons between Chinese and Western paintings, the shape of Han Di's "Five Bull Diagrams" and the "Shortened Perspective Method" of the Florentine painter Uccelli," the MijiaYunshan and the Impressionist School, Li Song's "Flower Basket Diagram" and Caravaggio's "Flower Basket Diagram," and so on, with a broad and atmospheric view.
Chinese painting is our traditional art, and the so-called "tradition" should be a living culture. Works such as "Reading Chinese Painting" are not only alive, but also let the tradition live in the hearts of most people. On the basis of mastering knowledge, we should understand more about the wonders of tradition and enter the spiritual world of ancient people.
【Source: Modern Express】
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