The Beauty In Form Of Watercolor

Watercolor painting originated from the west, like oil painting, it was deeply affected by western painting ideas. Watercolor has rich artistic accumulation and a long history.Since it was spread to China, quite a few generations of Chinese artists had contributed to its development, and that’s why Chinese watercolor nowadays is different from its ancestor. They form a situation of mutual complement and promotion, which in return propelled the development of Chinese watercolor on from of painting, contents, techniques, themes and ideology. Inherited from its ancestor, Chinese watercolor is delicate, stately and full of morbidezza, but it still has its unique feature, mainly embodied in its freehand brushwork.All thoughts and feelings of paintings are conveyed by form. The form dominates the art and it is the only powerful way to perform the art. Like other painting art, the artistic feature and subject language of watercolor painting should be conveyed by the common form of paintings. It also showed the common charm of watercolor painting. During the course of expressing, the speciality and variety of form of watercolor painting has been built. So the form of watercolor painting doesn’t stay in a constant way, it changes when artistic idea changes, when artistic fashion developed. It could be concrete, or imaginal, or abstract either. Whichever painted in anyway, the goal is uncovering the unique artistic charm of watercolor painting and the common form of artistic display. The variety of form beauty of watercolor painting help artists improve them self when they do watercolor painting, also propels the Chinese watercolor painting develop towards a right direction.