“Drawing Color Adhere To The Type”and My Creation On Bird-and-flower Painting

Chinese painting art is also named as pictorial art,color plays an important role in Chinese painting. Both popularity of truth and rigor of system represented in “Six approaches” put forward by Southern Qi·Xiehe in a Record of Comments on Ancient Painting provide solid theoretic basis for creation and criticism of Chinese painting in later period, however, “drawing color adhere to the type” is also determination of predictability for theory of color in Chinese painting for nearly several thousand years. Application of Chinese painting colors not lies in ink or colors, but reflecting artistic culture of artist itself, as main subject, into works as well as colors. Meanwhile, it presents requirements of drawing color adhere to the type. Only by comprehensive, development viewpoint to understand nature of Chinese painting color theory basis embodied in drawing color adhere to the type, can we have a right grasp for reasons why changes occur to Chinese painting color during endless historical course. “Those who adept at color selection have no fixed method, those who adept at matching color have no fixed way”. Coloring of Chinese painting not lies in numbers of base colors and familiarity/unfamiliarity to techniques, but our understanding and cognition to “drawing color adhere to the type”. This paper analyzes implication of “drawing color adhere to the type” by analyzing in terms of works in modern times and partial works from several painters as well as flower-and-bird painters combined with personal sketching practice and creation experience to explore coloring concept of Chinese painting, especially flower-and-bird painting. And then sum up painting materials, ink language, creation contents and emotion expression during creative practice as as to find expression mode and creation on creative contents.