On Imagery Of Chinese Flower And Bird Paintingin In Liberal Style

The first classic book mentioning the word of imagery is "Carving a Dragon at the Core of Literature". Since then, painters through ages have gradually realized the importance of imagery expressing. Today, the art expressing various imagery in the whole Chinese painting field has already unfolded before us. Studying the imagery of Chinese flower and bird painting in liberal style and transforming nature into beautiful spirit are moving its audiences, changing people's art values and purifying the souls of human beings.Throughout history till today, many schools of art have emerged in the developing art river of Chinese flower and bird painting, which can be described by the saying of "let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thoughts contend". To meet the aesthetic requirements of Chinese people, the tradition has gradually been formed, which is based on life drawing and regards impressionism as ultimate belonging. In the end, Chinese flower and bird painting in free style should jump out of space-time concept, go to pursue a spiritual existence of substance, imagery and shape. That is to say, what Chinese flower and bird painting tend to express is the essential shape of objective substance-imagery; in other words, imagery is the essential concept of Chinese flower and bird painting.This thesis is composed of three parts. Firstly, it reveals the poetic imagery of Chinese flower and bird painting in free style. When combining imagery and shape together in Chinese flower and bird paintings in liberal style, we can feel its emptiness, void atmosphere, broadness and farsighted beauty, and thus produce a might air approaching heaven and earth. In essence, the main idea of Chinese flower and bird painting focuses on the expression of nature and lives. Under certain conditions, it uses "air" as the skeleton and connects the thoughts of artists, the gamut of human being with the natural happiness. Secondly, the imagery of Chinese flower and bird painting should belong to its shape categories, which expresses the willing and thoughts of painters in their spiritual fields by means of rich writing and colorful shapes. What is called imagery shape is to express some kind of subjective feeling beyond shapes through objective shapes; whereas, the visual factors in the subjective feeling should be the combination of subjective things and objective things. Lastly, the imagery in Chinese flower and bird painting rules can be revealed by means of its managing location, especially the montage method in tradition Chinese painting.Obviously, humanistic and psychological connotation have deeply rooted in the imagery expression of Chinese flower and bird painting. The Chinese melts their real life experience into Chinese flower and bird painting composition. The composition of Chinese flower and bird painting in liberal style also mirrors the understanding of the Chinese people to the "Nature and Humanity" ideology, and reflects their dynamic grasp of the world as well as their thoughts, concept, emotion to it.