Slogan of artistic sketch

Art comes from life, not an empty talk. Sketch is the artist's observation, thinking, feeling, refining and description of life images. Sketching is not only the process of artistic creation, but also an important means and way of artistic creation.

Sketch is not only reflected in painting, but also in almost all arts such as literature, photography, music, dance and sculpture. The poet Du Fu wrote: "Two orioles sing green willows, and a row of egrets go up to the sky. The window contains autumn snow in Xiling, and the Wu Dong Wan Li boat is moored at the gate. Su Dongpo's "Looking at the side of the ridge from afar, it becomes a peak, and the distance is different." "The water is bright and clean, and the mountains and Kong Yu are strange" are all quatrains in the creation of sketches. The contemporary classic large-scale dance "Thousand Hands Guanyin" is also made by sketching Dunhuang paintings.

As far as painting art is concerned, observing and depicting life and objective objects is an indispensable and important link. Both Chinese painting and oil painting pay special attention to sketching, and special sketching courses are arranged in university courses, and sketching assignments are also arranged in cold departmental holidays. This shows the importance of sketch in art study and artistic creation.

It was after the creation of impressionist oil painting that sketch formed the theoretical system of painting and was included in the art teaching syllabus. Impressionism holds that the state and color of objective images are different at different times, different weather and different light, and this difference can only be observed in real time. Therefore, it is suggested that sketch should be a compulsory course in painting. We can see from Monet's Impression of Sunrise, the pioneering work of impressionism oil painting, that one is the picture when the sun rises and the other is the picture when the sun sets. The objective object is exactly the same as the image, but the relationship between light and shade and color have changed, which brings different visual effects to people. It's hard to find this if you don't sketch in real time on the spot.

So, how does sketch make sense for artistic creation?

First of all, it must be clear that sketching is not a copy of life, not a comparison of objective objects, but an observation and understanding, and a description of meaningful and valuable things. Just as the ancients painted mountains, they painted their features, momentum and soul instead of their original appearance, so the artistic conception came out.

In other words, painters or painting lovers should have their own creative ideas and concepts in the process of sketching, with bamboo in the painting and mountains in the painting. When the feeling you get from the objective image is consistent with your idea, a mature painting will come out.

Sketching is also a comprehensive test of the professional skills and aesthetic ability of painters and painting lovers. This requires not only studying and practicing painting skills hard, but also constantly cultivating and improving one's aesthetic consciousness, vision and ability. Of course, sketching is also a good way to improve study and exercise. Practice makes perfect, so you should insist on sketching more.