How to appreciate Chinese paintings and what kind of Chinese paintings are good?

Chinese painting, referred to as Chinese painting, is an inherent type of painting in our country. It has a long and splendid history. It was produced in a special and ancient civilization environment. If we count it from the silk paintings of the Warring States Period, it has a history of more than 2,000 years. If we further trace it back to the oldest wall pictograms, it has a history of more than 5,000 years. history. It can be seen that Chinese painting has been accompanying the long history of human civilization and continues to this day. In recent years, with the development and integration of world cultures, Chinese painting, with its unique national style, has increasingly shown its charming charm and value in the world painting circle, thus attracting the attention of the world. Today, with the continuous improvement of people's material and spiritual life, Chinese painting, an ancient and young painting art, has gradually entered people's vision and families. The number of people who like paintings, love paintings, appreciate paintings, and collect paintings is increasing day by day. However, how to appreciate the extensive and profound Chinese paintings is a difficult problem involving knowledge from multiple disciplines.

For thousands of years, they have gone through a long journey from origin, childishness, maturity to sublimation and change, from practicality to art. It is no exaggeration to say that calligraphy and painting are one of the most concentrated expressions of the intelligence and creativity of the Chinese nation, and in a sense mark the highest level of Chinese civilization in the field of classical culture and art. China's and even the Eastern world's views on the universe and nature, their attitudes towards society and human affairs, and their pursuit of beauty and eternity are all reflected in Chinese calligraphy and painting, and through them they have won the hearts of millions of descendants of Yan and Huang, Eastern friends and even the world. recognized by friends from all over the world. Those naive or vigorous or beautiful inscriptions and calligraphy of the past dynasties, those mysterious or brilliant or elegant paintings are the essence of our nation - calligraphy and painting artists (including unknown folk craftsmen) use aesthetic methods to The image record of spiritual dialogue with the world of subject and object. This dialogue sometimes reaches a philosophical level - between the vertical and horizontal strokes of "sitting, walking, flying, and moving", and among the brushwork and ink images that are "rich and ethereal" , contains emotions, embodies "Tao", expresses personality and even the experience of the life and universe. It can be said that every calligraphy and painting embodies the mentality of the nation and the times, and accumulates the cultural layer of the national spirit. As an art, the art of calligraphy and painting, which is the crystallization of Chinese people’s psychological consciousness, goes without saying. But not everyone can appreciate the art of calligraphy and painting at a higher level. It is so rich and long-lasting, exquisite and wonderful! To understand and feel the mysterious pottery paintings, ferocious bronze decorations, serene Buddha statues, literati paintings with meaning beyond pen and ink, and highly abstract and flowing dot-and-dot structure of calligraphy all require a certain amount of knowledge and cultivation. Appreciating Chinese calligraphy and painting allows the appreciator to hold a certain subjective attitude, which requires emotion and imagination. Rationality, exact knowledge and judgment are required.

Traditional Chinese painting uses brushes, ink, mineral pigments, silk, rice paper, etc. as tools (raw materials) to divide the expression into strokes and freehand paintings. Figure painting emphasizes "expressiveness". Through the expression of facial expressions (especially the depiction of eyes), body language, environment, etc., it is possible to depict the spirit and highlight the inner world of the characters. Landscape painting emphasizes the "poetry" to express majestic and rough or beautiful mountains, clouds and mist curtains - the creation of artistic conception that blends scenes, that is, closely blending the beauty of nature with the leisure interests of literati (Chinese culture), using lofty and distant views. The structural picture of flat distance and deep distance (or the combination of three distances), and the processing method of calculating white and treating black. Flower and bird paintings use objects to express ambitions and express feelings through objects; they praise life and nature - expressing their "heart". Pay attention to the colors of pen and ink: 1. The brushwork is rich and powerful, or it can be dignified, or dry and fast; it can be center, reverse, side, drag, or loose. 2. Multi-level changes in the ink method (five inks and six colors - burnt, thick, heavy, light, clear plus the color of the paper), or ink accumulation, broken ink, or splashed ink. 3. The colors are perceptual colors such as Sui Cai, which emphasizes ink and calmness (the colors are mainly bone ink, with light colors) and meticulous and heavy colors. Generally speaking, we pursue the fusion of traditional culture (intrinsic) and the interest (explicit) of line-shaped pen and ink, that is, the expression of poetic and painting style and "qiyun" and "spirit". In terms of modeling, we do not stick to the likeness (lifelikeness) of the appearance, but focus on expressing the inner "charm" and "charm" of the object and the expression (expression) of the painter's "mind". The treatment of composition and perspective is different from Western paintings. It uses multi-angle and multi-viewpoint (moving) "scattered perspective" to express the painter's subjective intention to freely combine space.

So how do we appreciate it? The author believes that Chinese paintings can be appreciated from the following aspects: China’s history, cultural background, literature and art (poetry and painting) and brush and ink techniques, as well as the charm of Chinese painting colors, etc. to taste (appreciate) Chinese paintings.

Outstanding Chinese painting works are magnificent and colorful in creation and have a long history. Legend has it that Chinese painting originated from Shi Huang in the Huangdi era. He could trace the images of fish, dragons, turtles, and birds and then paint them into pictures. The hand known as the "ancestor of painting" is Yu Shun's sister. She can paint with her hands and paint them into beautiful paintings.

With the changes of history and the development of society, Chinese painting has made great progress in the process of continuous innovation, formed its own unique artistic style, and occupied an important position in the history of world art.

In the long process of development, Chinese painting has not only been influenced by Confucianism represented by Confucius and Mencius, Taoism represented by Laozi and Zhuangzi, and Buddhism represented by Sakyamuni, but also It was also influenced by Western painting art. Confucianism advocates benevolence and pursues moderation; Taoism advocates nature and seeks transcendence; Buddhism advocates compassion and seeks to transcend the world; Western philosophy advocates individuality and independence. The exchange and integration of multiculturalism constantly injects new vitality into the art of Chinese painting, opens up a new artistic realm, and ultimately forms the artistic courage and inner spirit of Chinese painting that is outstanding and excellent.