The Relations Between Ink Wash And Color In Song Dynasty Landscape Painting

Color is an important part of the painting language. The world needs to brilliant colors to express, and so does human spiritual needs. However, compared with the excellent Literati ink, the lose of color in traditional Chinese painting is really a great pity, especially for the landscape paintings. With the changing of times, the way of people’s life and the ideology has undergone tremendous change, which resulted in the updating in the concept of visual and aesthetic experience, effectively. "Ink should always follow with the times"- then it is the painters’ task to match landscape art with the spirit of the times. For the painting artistic, one of the important innovation tendencies of modern Chinese painting landscape is advocating of the coloring.In the author’s opinion: one of the major tendencies of modern Chinese painting innovation is the reconstruction of the status of color in landscape painting, to serve this purpose, how to handle the relationship between ink and color should be taken into consideration at first. So for the peak of traditional Chinese landscape painting------ Song Dynasty, the research of the relationship between color and ink in landscape painting of this period is clearly necessary.Chinese landscape painting from the whole evolves along two paths: one is focused on the expression of the green landscape, another focus is emphasis on the ink landscape. Throughout the relationship and the status of the ink and colors in Chinese painting, Song Dynasty can be described as an important turning point. That is, the ink landscape dominant the green landscape gradually. Also, in Song, Qianjiang landscape painting has been greatly developed, and the painters in Song Dynasty, through constant exploration and practice, combined the previous green landscape and then fully developed ink landscape, leaving a lot of classic woks made by Qianjiang for the future generations, which proves an important turning point in Chinese landscape painting in entire history.Thus, the author proposes "the relationship between color and ink painting in Song can be divided into two types: one is the combination color and ink, which showed greater emphasis on traditional heavy green, merging the color and ink, the two complementing each other, ink-based, supplemented with color and to help the ink color in Qianjiang landscape; another is the separation of color and ink, which manifests as the direct abandon the traditional colors, simply using cracked, rub, point dyed of ink to show ink landscape and rather directly use the ink lines outline than use chunks of colors to depict the boneless landscape. " this paper will give demonstration in the following part.