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An important part of the country's cultural
heritage, the traditional Chinese painting
is distinguished from Western art in that it
is executed on xuan paper (or silk) with the
Chinese brush, Chinese ink and mineral and
vegetable pigments. To attain proficiency in this branch of art calls for assiduous exercise, a good control of the brush, and a feel and knowledge of the qualities of xuan paper and Chinese ink. Before setting a brush to paper, the painter must conceive a well-composed draft in his mind, drawing on his imagination and store of experience, Once he starts to paint, he will normally have to complete the work at one go, denied the possibility of any alteration of wrong strokes. |
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Xuan paper, as discussed in
a previous article, is most suitable for
Chinese painting. It is of the right texture
to allow the writing brush wet with Chinese
ink and held in a trained hand, to move
freely on it, making strokes varying from
dark to light, from solid to hollow. These
soon turn out to be human figures, plants
and flowers, birds, fish and insects, full
of interest and life. Chinese paintings are
divided into two major categories: free hand
brushwork (xieyi) and detailed brushwork
(gongbi) . The former is characterized by
simple and bold strokes intended to
represent the exaggerated likenesses of the
objects, while the latter by fine brushwork
and close attention to detail. Employing
different techniques, the two schools try
to achieve the same end, the creation of
beauty. China entered the slave society about 2000
B.C. Though no paintings of that period have
ever come to light, that society witnessed
the emergence of a magnificent bronze
culture, and bronzes can only be taken as a
composite art of painting and sculpture. Paintings on paper appeared much later than
those on silk for the simple reason that the
invention of silk preceded that of paper by
a long historical period. |
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Traditional Chinese Painting An important part of the country's cultural heritage, the traditional Chinese painting is distinguished from Western art in that it is executed on xuan paper (or silk) with the Chinese brush, Chinese ink and mineral and vegetable pigments. To attain proficiency in this branch of art calls for assiduous exercise, a good control of die brush, and a feel and knowledge of the qualities of xuan paper and Chinese ink. |
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Before setting a brush to paper, the painter
must conceive a well-composed draft in his
mind, drawing on his imagination and store
of experience. Once he starts to paint, he
will normally have to complete the work at
one go, denied the possibility of any
alteration of wrong strokes. Xuan paper, is most suitable for Chinese painting. It is of the right texture to allow the writing brush, wet with Chinese ink and held in a trained hand, to move freely on it, making strokes varying from dark to light, from solid to hollow. These soon turn out to be human figures, plants and flowers, birds, fish and insects, full of in-terest and life. Pls let us know if you also want picture frame for Chinese painting, Chinese paintings, Chinese traditional painting, Chinese calligraphy, calligraphy, Chinese oil painting, painting, art paintings, paintings for sale, artwork. Chinese paintings are divided into two major categories: free hand brushwork (xieyi) and detailed brushwork (gongbi). The former is characterized by simple and bold strokes intended to represent the exaggerated likenesses of the objects, while the latter by fine brushwork and close attention to detail. Employing different techniques, the two schools try to achieve the same end, the creation of beauty Traditional Chinese Calligraphy Calligraphy is understood in China as the art of writing a good hand with the brush or the study of the rules and techniques of this art. As such it is peculiar to China and the few countries influenced by ancient Chinese culture. In the history of Chinese art, calligraphy has always been held in equal importance to painting. Great attention is also paid today to its development by holding exhibitions of ancient and contemporary works and by organizing competitions among youngsters and people from various walks of life. Sharing of experience in this field often makes a feature in Sino-Japanese cultural exchange. Chinese calligraphy, like the script itself, began with the hieroglyphs and, over the long ages of evolution, has developed various styles and schools, constituting an important part of the heritage of national culture. Chinese scripts are generally divided into five categories: the seal character (zhuan), the official or clerical script (li), the regular script (kai), the running hand (xing) and the cursive hand (cao). 1) The Zhuan script or seal character was the earliest form of writing after the oracle inscriptions, which must have caused great inconvenience because they lacked uniformity and many characters were written in variant forms. The first effort for the unification of writing, it is said, took place during the reign of King Xuan (827-782 B.C.) of the Western Zhou Dynasty, when his taishi (grand historian) Shi Zhou compiled a lexicon of 15 chapters, standardizing Chinese writing under script called zhuan. It is also known as zhouwen after the name of the author. This script, often used in seals, is translated into English as the seal character, or as the "curly script" after the shape of its strokes. 2) The lishu (official script) came in the wake of the xiaozhuan in the same short-lived Qin Dynasty(221-206B.C.). This was because the xiaozhuan, though a simplified form of script, was still too complicated for the scribers in the various government offices who had to copy an increasing amount of documents. Cheng Miao, a prison warden, made a further simplification of the xiaozhuan, changing the curly strokes into straight and angular ones and thus making writing much easier. A further step away from the pictographs, it was named lishu because li in classical Chinese meant "clerk" or "scriber". Another version says that Cheng Miao, because of certain offence, became a prisoner and slave himself; as the ancients also called bound slaves "li", so the script was named lishu or the "script of a slave". 3) The lishu was already very close to, and led to the adoption of, kaishu, regular script. The oldest existing example of this dates from the Wei (220-265), and the script developed under the Jin (265-420).The standard writing today is square in form, non-cursive and architectural in style.The characters are composed of a number of strokes out of a total of eight kinds-the dot, the horizontal, the vertical, the hook, the rising, the left-falling (short and long) and the right-falling strokes. Any aspirant for the status of calligrapher must start by learning to write a good hand in kaishu. 4) On the basis of lishu also evolved caoshu (grass writing or cursive hand), which is rapid and used for making quick but rough copies. This style is subdivided into two schools: zhangcao and jincao. The first of these emerged at the time the Qin was replaced by the Han Dynasty between the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. The characters, though written rapidly, still stand separate one from another and the dots are not linked up with other strokes. It is also beautiful for fine traditional painting, fine Chinese painting, Chinese paintings, Chinese traditional painting, Chinese calligraphy, calligraphy, Chinese oil painting, painting, art paintings, paintings for sale, artwork. It is the essence of the caoshu, especially jincao, that the characters are executed swiftly with the strokes running together. The characters are often joined up, with the last stroke of the first merging into the initial stroke of the next. They also vary in size in the same piece of writing, all seemingly dictated by the whims of the writer. |
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5) The xingshu or running hand is something
between the regular and the cursive scripts.
When carefully written with distinguishable
strokes, the xingshu characters will be very
close to the regular style; when swiftly
executed, they will approach the caoshu or
cursive hand. Chinese masters have always
compared with vivid aptness the three styles
of writing-kaishu, xingshu and caoshu-to
people standing, walking and running. The best example and model for xingshu, all Chinese calligraphers will agree, is the Inscription on Lanting Pavilion in the hand of Wang Xizhi (321-379) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. |
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