In landscape painting, there are also some composition rules, although the statements are different, but they are also derived from the above aesthetic laws, called small truths are controlled by big truths. At present, some of the following rules are commonly used:
(1) Distinguish between guests and hosts. That is, to arrange the scenery on the screen, do not lay flat and direct, and have a master and a sub- Some scenes must be taken as the main body and some as objects, but the main body does not belong to the theme, and it is the weight of the layout. The relationship between the guest and the host of the figure painting is relatively simple, and it is generally always based on the character and the guest of the scene. Flower and bird painting is not difficult, generally based on birds and main flowers, other guests. The layout of landscape painting is much more difficult because it is ever-changing. We often see that some pictures are lax, sloppy or noisy, because there is no prominent subject, or the relationship between the foil and foil of the object is lost.
(2) Virtual reality is born. The layout of Chinese painting is not like Western painting to paint the sky and paint water, painting still life also has to paint the background, full of real scenes, will make people feel closed and suffocated, but the full blank space does not become a canvas, and the magic is that there is virtual reality, there is ethereal. Therefore, when composing the picture, it is necessary to cleverly arrange the blank space in order to highlight the entity. At the same time, the arrangement of virtual reality itself is also the need of the rhythm of the picture. Generally speaking, the tangible is real (scenery), the invisible is virtual (blank), but some measures can be taken to seek change, and the tangible can also be virtual, such as mountains and trees are too real, and can be virtual with clouds, water, smoke, and fog. The invisible can also be real, in the blank space is too virtual, you can add the bright moon, birds, boats, you can increase the real component. This is called virtual in reality, virtual in reality, virtual reality in between, and mutual occurrence. Further, the denseness, thickness, black and white, gathering and dispersion on the screen are all components of virtual reality. At the same time, the overall situation has virtual reality, and the local reality is also virtual, which makes the picture have a sense of rhythm rather than blandness, and there is ethereal without suffocation.
(3) Dense gathering and dispersion. Closely related to the previous paragraph is dense and scattered, the whole picture, dense but not sparse, people feel suffocated, breathless, sparse but not dense, and feel loose, loose. Gathering and dispersing in the point leaves, point moss is more obvious, there must be gathering, there is a scatter, in order to feel vivid and lively.