A Thought On The Material And Technique Of Making Of Fine Brush Painting

Fine Brush Painting is a spectacular scene among the arena of Chinese Paintings. It has a long history as well as a remarkable merits in the development of Chinese traditional arts. As one of the traditional drawings descending from thousands of years ago, Fine Brush Painting, compared with those paintings of Europe and Japan, has unique artistic features, occupying a special position in the ocean of world's arts.Fine Brush Painting actually has developed though a long way, from ZhanGuo Dynasty to SuiTang Dynasty, and to Five-Generation Dynasty all the way up to Two-Song Dynasty. In the process, it's become mature gradually. It's generally acknowledged that the Tang Dynasty and Five-Generation Dynasty were the summit period of Fine Brush Painting. Particularly, the Fine Brush Painting of young girls had achieved a relatively high level then. Famous works produced in this period included"Dao Lian Picture","The picture of Guo Guo Lady's Sring Trip", and"The Picture of Han Xi's Feast", and other a series of outstanding works of Chinese traditional arts. In Yuan Dynasty, however, with the rise of drawings designed to convey meanings, the influence of Fine Brush Painting gradually waned. However, the traditional of it, especially in terms of the part of presentation, was kept."The Yong Le Palace Fresco", which was accomplished at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, adopted the traditional form of presentation of Fine Brush Painting, fostering a magnificent effect; from the period of Ming Qing to the beginning of Reform, however, the influence of Fine Brush Painting gradually withered. Since the establishment of new China, thanks to the effort of many excellent senior artists, added with the influx of the western ideas of art, the art of traditional Chinese painting, particularly the Fine Brush Painting, is able to absorb essence from other arts, which was an unprecedented scene. The diversity of ideas and features together with the multi-level techniques has helped modern Fine Brush Painting to walk out of the isolation, heading towards a prosperous future. Modern Fine Art Painting don't only carry new ideas, well-structured with a refine making but also diversifies in features. In addition, it has also made lots of exploration in terms of the materials and techniques, making the power of presentation richer and is guaranteed with a bright future.Since the opening and reform, the Fine Brush Painting, as a special category of Chinese painting, is also developed steadily. At the same time, the ethnicity and modernism are more and more penetrated into modern Fine Brush Painting. Correspondingly, the attempt in artistic techniques also becomes mature. The revolution became particularly obvious after the 90s. On the base of traditional techniques, artists have adopted more modernized means of representation. The reform in the materials was also dramatic, and lots of new mineral staffs for painting were added, which was a huge progress. The modern Chinese Fine Brush Painting should be able to represent a multiplied human, ideas and society with new materials, colors, and fabrics and forms. The Fine Brush Painting should not stay where it was forever. Instead, it should embody both traditional spirits and modern language, mastering and inheriting the traditional peoples'sprit and excellent artistic representative techniques, with which combined modern topics so that modern Fine Brush Painting can embody both oriental traditional humanity and western modern civilization. So, the Fine Brush Painting, which has kept silent for hundreds years, are enabled to develop fully and newly. Also, it has imposed a new subject to the modern artists in terms of artistic concepts, features, topics, techniques and a series of artistic elements. This article strives to present a new thinking and exploration from the perceives of the material, the making the fabric, and etc.