| Shi Tao's Quotations is the most important painting aesthetics book of the Qing Dynasty. "A Painting" theory as a core theory, makes drawing principles and methodology unified and run through without stop. "A Painting" theory to Shi Tao is all the primitive state of things and adscription to everything. "From one to million, from million to one", it is all about interpretation of "A Painting" returning to the origin. The different scholars have different researching about "A Painting". This article tries to understand "A Painting" from the angle of points, lines and sides as Chinese landscape painting composition language. From analysis of the development, we can draw a conclusion to the shortage of modern Chinese landscape painting. As a drawing theory, Shi Tao's "A Painting" theory, has a great guide meaning no matter to past or now. All this indicates his daring spirit of innovation. Eighteen Chapters interlocked, from principles to concrete proposals, the skills of the wrinkling, techniques of paint crags and the trees have been introduced, especially the last chapter discusses quite reasonably from the creator's subjective aspects. "A Painting" is the laws of "A Painting", but the painter can not be limited to laws.Though Shi Tao has presented feasible painting laws, we must make the laws serve for the modern composition based on the ancient laws.What is the most important is that, the artists should draw themselves from their heart, emphasis on the freedom to creation and "I have my own laws", and then enjoy ourselves.Calling for" Brush and ink should follow times",in the new period of the new circumstances, different artists try various of exploration forms.They are not restricted to tradition, with advanced thought and sharp personality in art, doing the attempts in visual patterns, the language of painting.Combining the western notion of modeling, color rules to traditional landscape painting, blending with various drawing views and aesthetic orientations to reconstruction new features of modern landscape.Company with diverse exploration for landscape creation, some negative sides is in stir. Especially with the western machine civilization and the market economy, painting market recovery brings various utilitarian temptations to make certain money worship breed, and interfere the law that the art is following your heart. Under the material desires, the heart is usually tired considering a variety of interests. "The heart is tired driven by materials. We can ruin and restrain ourselves with the tired heart and temporal brush and ink drawing." All of which can prevent the artists from relaxed and readily composition. Meanwhile, we can have a profound inspiration meaning by reiterating "A Painting" theory.It is a product of its time, with the timely significance to landscape painting. It plays an important role in the pursuit of drawing freely and artistic creation, particularly in the tendency of diversification, personalization, globalization of modern painting. In the calls for creation, many artists lost themselves, and don't know how to achieve the heavy responsibilities that transfer traditional Chinese landscape painting to modern Chinese landscape painting, which makes them from drawing to do paintings blindly, even many artists pursue the superficial schematization and technical things excessively to turn out their characteristics, ignoring the traditional Chinese scholar spirits and personalities while the "one" is of the utmost value. |
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