Study On Chen Zhifo's Meticulous Flower-and-bird Painting

Chen Zhifo was an outstanding artist of the 20th century. He was skilled and knowledgeable. He got enormous achievements in the field of arts-craft, meticulous flower-bird painting, art theory and education. Especially its meticulous style flower-bird painting played a significant role in the modern painting field. First he inherited the excellent tradition of Song and Yuan dynasty, second he mixed the essence of chinese folk art and world's pluralistic art together to enrich the performance skills of its painting. It was a creation in meticulous flower-bird painting.Chen zhifo mixed traditional flower-bird and art pattern together in his painting constantly. On the art of composition, he absorbed the art pattern's advantage to emphasize the contrast, harmonic, balanced visual perception. On the shape expression, he applied the simple, abstract, decorative pattern design into meticulous flower-bird painting, So his works presented a simple and exaggerate style characteristic. Influenced by western chromatology, about coloring, he paid attention to contrast and reconcile the color's purity, brightness and hue. So his painting was colorful but not common, rich and elegant, with a visual appeal. It was not only exquisite such as imperial-court decorative painting and free liking literati paintings, but also full of rich era characteristic. It was unique in the flower-bird painting area because of decorative and bright style. His creations promoted the healthy development of fade painting area.