Bird-and-flower painting
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Bird-and-flower painting is a kind of Chinese painting
named after its subject matter. Normally, most bird-and-flower paintings belong to the scholar-artist style of Chinese painting.
According to Chinese tradition, bird-and-flower painting covers "flowers, birds, fish, and insects" (Traditional Chinese: 花鳥魚蟲, Simplified Chinese: 花鸟鱼虫 huā, niǎo, yú, chóng). It can thus deal with a wide range of natural topics, including flowers (plants), fish, insects, birds, pets (dogs, cats) etc.
Representatives: Lin Liang
(林良), Tang Yin
(唐寅)
Chinese painting
Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. 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...
named after its subject matter. Normally, most bird-and-flower paintings belong to the scholar-artist style of Chinese painting.
According to Chinese tradition, bird-and-flower painting covers "flowers, birds, fish, and insects" (Traditional Chinese: 花鳥魚蟲, Simplified Chinese: 花鸟鱼虫 huā, niǎo, yú, chóng). It can thus deal with a wide range of natural topics, including flowers (plants), fish, insects, birds, pets (dogs, cats) etc.
Varieties
According to painting technique:- Ink and Wash PaintingInk and wash paintingInk and wash painting is an East Asian type of brush painting also known as ink wash painting. Only black ink — the same as used in East Asian calligraphy — is used, in various concentrations....
(水墨花鸟画/水墨花鸟画). Representatives: Lin LiangLin LiangLin Liang ; ca. 1424－1500 was a Chinese imperial painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty .Lin was born in Nanhai in the Guangdong province. His style name was 'Yishan'. Lin often painted with a very unconstrained style...
(林良), Qi BaishiQi BaishiQi Baishi was an influential Chinese painter.Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China...
(齐白石), Zhang DaqianZhang DaqianChang Dai-chien was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter...
(张大千) - Fine-brush (工笔花鸟/工笔花鸟画)
- Fine-brush with Ink and Wash Painting (工笔水墨/兼工带水墨). Representatives: Lin LiangLin LiangLin Liang ; ca. 1424－1500 was a Chinese imperial painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty .Lin was born in Nanhai in the Guangdong province. His style name was 'Yishan'. Lin often painted with a very unconstrained style...
(林良), Ren YiRèn YíRèn Yí , also known as Ren Bonian, was a painter and son of a rice merchant who supplemented his income by doing portraits. He was born in Zhejiang, but after the death of his father in 1855 he lived in Shanghai. This move placed him in a more urban world that was exposed to Western thinking...
(任颐) - Fine-brush with Colour (工彩)
- Fine-brush with Heavy Colour (工笔重彩)
- Fine-brush with Light Colour (工笔淡彩). Representatives: Emperor Huizong (赵佶), Lü Ji (吕纪), Lin LiangLin LiangLin Liang ; ca. 1424－1500 was a Chinese imperial painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty .Lin was born in Nanhai in the Guangdong province. His style name was 'Yishan'. Lin often painted with a very unconstrained style...
(林良)
- Fine-brush with Ink and Wash Painting (工笔水墨/兼工带水墨). Representatives: Lin Liang
- Freehand Style (写意花鸟/写意花鸟画)
- Great Freehand Style (大写意)
- Slight Freehand Style (小写意). Representatives: Tang YinTang YinTang Yin , better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu , was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming Dynasty period whose life story has become a part of popular lore...
(唐寅), Xu WeiXu WeiXu Wei was a Ming Chinese painter, poet and dramatist famed for his artistic expressiveness. Revolutionary for its time, his painting style influenced and inspired countless subsequent painters, such as Bada Shanren, the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and the modern masters Wu Changshuo and Qi...
(徐渭), Wu ChangshuoWu ChangshuoWú Chāngshuò is the name for which Wu Junqing is best known. He was born in Zhejiang from a scholarly family and for a time toward the end of the Qing he served as an official in Liaoning. He settled in Suzhou in his twenties.Initially, he devoted himself to poetry and calligraphy with a strong...
(吴昌硕), Ren YiRèn YíRèn Yí , also known as Ren Bonian, was a painter and son of a rice merchant who supplemented his income by doing portraits. He was born in Zhejiang, but after the death of his father in 1855 he lived in Shanghai. This move placed him in a more urban world that was exposed to Western thinking...
(任颐)
- Fine-brush with Freehand Style (兼工带写)
Representatives: Lin Liang
Lin Liang
Lin Liang ; ca. 1424－1500 was a Chinese imperial painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty .Lin was born in Nanhai in the Guangdong province. His style name was 'Yishan'. Lin often painted with a very unconstrained style...
(林良), Tang Yin
Tang Yin
Tang Yin , better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu , was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming Dynasty period whose life story has become a part of popular lore...
(唐寅)
External Links
- Chinese Flower Painting at China Online Museum
- Chinese Bird Painting at China Online Museum