On The Use Of Lines In Chinese Meticulous Flower-and-bird Painting

Due to its great function to create artistic beauty, line is the soul of Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting. The image-building of traditional Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting is mainly accomplished through the lines and colors, while the use of lines is the beginning of"image-building " ,which is the most basic element of meticulous bird-and-flower painting.The expression of lines of the traditional meticulous bird-and-flower painting significantly reflects the painting characteristics and aesthetic features of Chinese painting. With the accelerated process of modernization, the contemporary meticulous bird-and-flower painting has widely absorbed foreign essence and blended itself deeply into modern aesthetic philosophy; as a result, it shows a new face with contemporary features and aesthetic characteristics on the basis traditional techniques. Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting got its initial revival between 1950's and 1960's, though there were some innovations in the lines, not yet in form of sharp features. Since the mid-1980s, with the continuous deepening of reform and opening up, the tendency of the arts form a situation of ideological emancipation, emphasizing on the modern aesthetic consciousness and emotions, trying various techniques of expression. At the same time , changes of the role the expression of line played in Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting art played has taken place .Compared to the traditional Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting , there has been a deviation from the traditional techniques, which triggered many discussions and reflections on it.This article seeks to make a deep research of the use of lines of the Chinese traditional meticulous bird-and-flower painting , which is already almost mature , perfect and systematic, and to make a general summarizing of the development context and the application principles of lines of the Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting, combined with a discussion of several contemporary evolutions of Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting, with the purpose to explore the law of the development of the use of lines in traditional meticulous bird-and-flower painting, so as to grasp its unique artistic features in future creation. This paper mainly discusses several aspects as following: First of all, in the traditional cultural and aesthetic point of view , to interpret meaning of the lines in Chinese painting and summarize its main characteristics; Second, in the heritage point of view, to straighten out the development context of line-use in traditional meticulous bird-and-flower painting and to elaborate the transform of Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting- from the primitive and simple form to highly developed and ready-to change ones; Third, in the technique point of view, to sum up the existing form and the application principles of the lines of Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting; and finally, in the succession and innovation point of view, to discuses the expansion and evolution of use of lines in Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting. In short, each part of the discussion centered on essential characteristics of the "line", and the whole article has made a systemic research of the use of lines in Chinese meticulous bird-and-flower painting through both the approach of comparative analysis and the approach of illustration analysis.The study opened in the old and the vertical,horizontal Highlights learning in the creation of a flavor of the times in contemporary China meticulous flower-and-bird painting Fine Brushwork linear language and the development of important guiding significance.