The Thinking About Sketch As The Fundamental Training Of Chinese Painting's Configuration

Sketch has become the fundamental configuration training function of Chinese painting based on the collision and integration of Chinese art and Western art in the 20th century, when the Chinese society changed from the old model to the new one. As a type of heterogeneous artistic language, sketch has deeply effect the fundamental configuration training functions of the traditional Chinese painting especially for the way of figure painting. Sketch has played an important role in the training of Chinese painting, because it broke through the old teaching system of Chinese painting. Sketch, as a fundamental configuration training function of Chinese painting, has changed the traditional conception of aesthetic and behavior language. It has also changed the education of the traditional Chinese painting. There is an endlessly debate in the art education of whether it is necessary to study sketch for a student who is studying traditional Chinese painting. While in fact sketch, as a fundamental configuration training function of Chinese painting, has been carried out for many years in almost all the universities and we will keep on using it. There have been many achievements and failures for sketch training. But it is hard to imagine a Chinese painter without sketch training now. The sketch can really solve some problems about the training of the fundamental configuration such as form factor in a picture. But it is necessary to note that sketch can not solve all the problems in Chinese painting. So for a student who is studying traditional Chinese painting, he need to learn sketch based on the knowledge of traditional Chinese painting, he should know the advantages and shortcomings of sketch.