Chinese Traditional Painting

Chinese calligraphy is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters, Chinese calligraphy is a very unique visual art. It is an important factor in China, because Chinese calligraphy is produced by Chinese culture, and Chinese characters is one of the basic elements of Chinese cultures.

Chinese calligraphy is a unique performance art, known as: silent poetry, no line dance; no figure painting, a silent music.

Calligraphy brush to write Chinese characters refers to the methods and laws. Including writing, brush, stippling, structure and layout (distribution lines)

Calligraphy is in accordance with the characteristics and meaning of the text, its calligraphic strokes, structure and writing tricks, making rich beauty of art.

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument, dip pen, or brush , among other writing instruments. A contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as, "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner".

Starting around 4000 B.C. traditional Chinese painting has developed continuously over a period of more than six thousand years. Its growth has inevitably reflected the changes of time and social conditions. In its early stage of development, Chinese painting was closely related to the other crafts, from pottery to the decorations used on the bronzes, carved jade and lacqerware.

Landscape painting had already established itself as an independent form of expression by the 4th century. Then gradually developed into the two separate styles of “blue-and-green landscapes” and “ink-and-wash landscape”.

Chinese Brush Painting is the representative of Chinese painting, which is narrowly defined, "painting", and spread to other parts of East Asia. The basic ink, only water and ink, black and white, but advanced ink, there are fine colorful brushwork bird, which is sometimes referred as color painting.

Chinese ink painting is characterized by: near realistic, distant abstraction, subtle colors, rich mood. Paintings of historical character and stories of everyday life became extremely popular. Techniques were also further refined.

Modern painters have often mixed several colors on one brush or mixed their colors with black inks. As a result, they have obtained more natural and richly varied colors. Such techniques have been widely adopted and further developed in the contemporary period.

Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guóhuà meaning 'national' or 'native painting', as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century.

Chinese painting exquisite beauty of form, composition independent of time and space constraints, but also from the perspective of the shackles of focus, blank screen using unique. Use more casual point perspective (to move the distance method), so that the vast broad vision, flexibility and freedom composition, painting the images are free to set the column to break through the limitations of time and space.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures. Early pottery was painted with spirals, zigzags, dots, or animals.

Lion and tiger represent the power and spirit of indomitable. These have bee the most popular animals drawing in the Chinese traditional painting.

Some painted pictures of towering mountains, using strong black lines, ink wash, and sharp, dotted brushstrokes to suggest rough stone. And the others painted the rolling hills and rivers of their native countryside in peaceful scenes done with softer, rubbed brushwork. These two kinds of scenes and techniques became the classical styles of Chinese painting.