I Talked About The Green Landscape

The blue and green landscape painting, which is a classical form of Chinese painting, possesses its own advantages and disadvantages. But it has retreated from the Chinese painting's main stream of development during a very early period. This article begins with the formation of how to use the colors when painting the blue and green landscape paintings and it indicates that the use of colors in this kind of painting roots mainly from the master of blue and green colors of the natural scenery. The second part of the article analyses the five factors which makes the blue and green landscape paintings become weak: firstly, the effects of the Chinese philosophy; secondly, the effects of the thoughts revealed from the comments which consider pen and ink more important than the use of colors; thirdly, the effects of the commercialization of the paints; fourthly, the effects of the rooted literary complex of the painters; finally, the effects of the loss of the paints in the past dynasties. In the third part, this article re-explains the paintings about the blue and green landscape on the premise of the master of the above 5 factors. In this part, it also re-understands the method of how to apply colors according to categories , in order to find out the ideal approach of this form of painting to the development of modern landscape painting.