Texturing Method And The Style

Content: Chinese landscape painting strikes root in the extensive and profound culturein Chinese nation and it's style can be traeed to the same origin. Taoism idea is the essence ofthe traditional Chinese philosophy. The artistic spirit embodies in the Taoism idea is themain-stream spirit of Chinese landscape painting. The texturing method, through which the aesthetic style of Chinese landscape painting is reflected well, is the most primary technique. The painting styles of painters of different dynastic are closely related to their various texturing methods. Gaining clear ideas of the development course and the inherited relations about the texturing method, one can acquaint with the history of Chinese landscape painting on the whole. The texturing methods, which are multiple in the Chinese landscape painting, can be summed up into two: Fu Pi method and Pi Ma method, from which the others derive. The former, which is appropriate to express stone mountains, is often employed by the northern school of Chinese landscape painting represented in Jing Hao, Guan Tong, Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, Guo Xi, Li Tang, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui. Whereas the latter, which suits to express soil mountains, is adopted very much by the southern school of Chinese landscape painting represented in Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, Zhao Mengfu, Huang Gongwang, Wu Zheng, Ni Yunlin, Wang Meng, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui and Wang Yuanqi.