On The Application Of "Cloud" In Landscape Painting

As one of the most unpredictable and changeable substances derived from nature,"cloud" has long been regarded as the object of aesthetic observation in various artistic activities.From poetry language to painting image,people have observed,understood and imitated clouds since ancient times,and described them repeatedly as an artistic image.In Chinese landscape painting,"cloud" is an indispensable part and a key factor to make landscape pictures agile.Reading the descriptions of clouds in various kinds of painting theories,we can get a glimpse of the process and form of clouds description system gradually formed in Chinese painting.Through the analysis of the different descriptive techniques and artistic achievements of the past dynasties and the representative works of the representative painters,we can find that different artists have their own characteristics when facing different cloud states.There are abundant forms of clouds in nature,such as smoke,fog,haze,Lan and so on.Clouds in four seasons and clouds in cloudy and sunny seasons also have different characteristics.They show artistic individuality and generality through artist's artistic processing after they are painted,thus becoming a typical art form in Chinese painting.The author gradually formed his own artistic style through his long-term observation of nature,his understanding of cloud and his exploration of how the ever-changing forms of cloud presented in ink and brush.Focus on exploring the inspiration of natural clouds to creation and the importance of the relationship between different carriers,brush and ink skills,composition forms and cloud symbolization to the formation of style.