Characteristics of the Technique of Traditional Chinese Painting
Chinese Flower and Birds Painting
Free layout:
The painter can choose different compositions according to the theme of the painting and is neither bounded by time nor space. For example, the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (Qingming Festival, when Chinese people visit ancestral tombs, falls on April 5 or 6 each year) and Ten Thousand Kilometers of Yangtze River drew by Wu Guanzhong both apply cavalier perspective technique on the composition to achieve the visual effect of free layout.
High generalization and highlighting theme:
The prototypes of Chinese paintings come from life then shape arts after refining, well choosing and further processing to shape. It does not divorce itself from people’s visual experience and doesn’t deny the logic of life and focus on using brush strokes, ink and lines to sketch life and art.
On the composition, lines become the primary form then will be supplemented by point and plane. Through combinations of different types of lines such as light and heavy line, think or clear lines, as well as different sizes of abstract and the concrete points and planes, the painter can express the shape, quality and image of the whole painting incisively, vividly and ceaselessly.
