The traditional line drawing in Chinese painting
The importance of brush principle in Chinese painting techniques is self-evident, but one significant problem is how to explain the brush rules in different time, different forms of content for the expression of the "structure" metamorphosis. How the painter to cultivate out images through our heart? And how these line drawings reach the painter and require specific creation idea of its era?
From the perspective of Chinese painting history brush ability development of the Tang Dynasty, "line drawing" is a significant phenomenon. "line drawing" can be said to be the foundation of later art historian Zhang Yanyuan "pen trace" theory, but also can be said to be the earliest example later on lines as the Chinese painting characteristics. Line paining date back to early emphasis on image art of Chinese lines, but the line in Tang Dynasty is completely different from the meaning of the early Han Dynasty and Wei Jin people in structure. For the interpretation from Han to Jin Dynasty change is involved in the Buddhism painting influence Chinese pen traditional problem or not .
"Line painting" in Tang Dynasty is very different from the later one. The latter is much more narrow rang the former. Generally speaking: "people draw outline without color by only using the weak ink, that it is called the line drawing." Basically, the pure description is intended to be regarded as the outline images contour line. This does not mean that the object lines because of its structure and different optical phenomena. The object surface is affected by light condition, usually on Moran or painted to the depth of expression, and the two kind of method does not fall within the scope of the narrow line drawing.
The fact is that the traditional Chinese painting is stock by the West concave convex method. Official Chinese traditional pencil in response to the challenge of concave and convex, the solution method is conceived. The main role of early Chinese pen line is drawn out form the scope, and the boundaries between different regions within the range. The form master is formed through a combination of the concept. Sense of volume and quality sense is not a painter in the pursuit of goals, what they care about is the beautiful form by drawing the interaction rule between black and white, and rhythm through the actual changes of each standard cell domain produced. By the theory, if the line is really interpreting shadow take effect, when the shadow show extreme precision, complex, the lines should also respond with similar skills, interpreting any detailed shadow shading.
Painters gradually on the structure significance of foreign technique are grasped at the same time, step by step to interpret realistic three-dimensional target. However, when the pen in the representation of organic three-dimensional structure meaning, basically non representation of the traditional pencil representation meaning, how conflict in this new representation system not to, and actively rich pen image content? Later in the pen content description performance has non Han Jin on the line itself pure form changes may be keen, but with the structure of pen interpretation object, matching pursuit image lifelike achievement, thus by the line itself, and then give the images a fully expressed by describing appearance .