Colors And Materials

Color, which is the fundamental form of beauty, the most direcct and emotional factor of visible art, the key to aesthetic emotional door by artists, can immediately attracts people's visible attendence and emotional echo. It is not noly the factor of people's transmitting vision but also the important factor of painting. Chinese painting is called "DanQing"from acient times, which is the replacement of all the materials and paintings. So we know there're intimate relations between painting and color. Color plays an important role in Chinese painting, and it is in the same steps with the West painting in material, but Chinese painting gets to a way of ink. Nowadays, at the tendency of global integration, different cultures will never forget to learn from others when they're improving themselves. So mang Chinese artists have clearly realized that Chinese painting can "talk with the world in the same regulations"only by putting color in. As the fast development of Gongbi heavy colored-painting, the artists of heavy colored-painting want color which is the most popular art language to finish the mission of Chinese painting's renovation. "A workman must first sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well".There are many important things to do at the color system's refoundation of Chinese painting especially heavy colored-painting. First, the tendency of Chinese painting has been not satisfied with the ten-years old works, so we must study, dig in and improve the materials of traditional painting; second, we must "open our eyes to the whole world"(said by Linzexu)and "absorb others"(said by Luxun).When choose materials, Chinese artists emphasize the quality not producing place in all ages. For example, ShaQing also called HuiQing which is used in DunHuang Wall-painting, is from XiYu, and BianQing also called DanQing which is used in Acient-painting in Ming and Qing Dynastics is from Europe. At present, modern GongBi heavy colored-painting adds a beautiful sunshine like the rainbow to the tranditional Chinese painting by using modern ideation,...