The Search Of The Form Of Bird And Flower Painting Inthe Theme Of Crops

Chinese flower and bird painting has a long history, it can be traced back to theNeolithic pottery, bronze of Yin and Zhou Dynasty, and the stone portrait of HanDynasty. There are diverse decorations of flowers, birds, fishes and insects on ancientcrafts.These forms of art are produced by the aesthetic sense. However, these can not becalled flower and bird painting, because that it is not an independent painting art. Until theTang Dynasty,by the flourishing economy, steady politics，culture and art are alsounprecedentedly prosperous.All that makes the flower and bird painting to be aspecialized branch after landscapes painting.Most of the traditional flower and bird paintings make flowers, animals, birds, insectsimages as the main performance, but latter-days, it has been greatly continuation anddevelopment in the choice of subject matter. With the faster pace of life, the lifestyle hasundergone tremendous changes from the ancient times with farming as the mainproductivity to the modern life of technology and digital. The creation of natural flowersand birds affected by these factors. However, bird and flower painting has undergonethousands of inheritance, it has been very mature in its composition and topics. So it has agreat difficulty to make creations on the theme of flower and bird painting.In the modern and contemporary creation of flower and bird painting, food-themepaintings are rare. Our country is a agricultural country, and Hebei province has a largequantity of grain, as well as the rural landscape has become the object depicted. I found itis so beautiful after a tour to the countryside, and it formed a artistic sensibility which isthe combination of art and real life. The theme of creation of the flower and bird paintingis Hebei crops. Through these local materials, such as wheat, sorghum, corn, cotton crop,the images reflected a very strong geographical features. These home-grown crops areclosely related to our life. Using a conventional six feet off on the composition of Sitiao tocombine the growth direction of the crops，the images depicted the form of outstandingsense of tall crops grown. On the aspect of ink technique, they broken the traditionalmeticulous flower painting with impressionistic approach, while combined Westernwatercolor painting. They formed different forms with bright colors and bright contrast.In the process of depicting collections of mature grain, I used a gorgeous golden autumnexpressed the special feelings--mature, harvest and expectations. As the native, I alsoexpressed the feelings of love to this land where feeds us up, and respects to the famers who have simple emotions.