(完整版)Chinese_Paintingandcalligraphy

1、chinese painting and calligraphywarm-up activitiesconversation: the significance of chinese paintingswords:pragmatism 实用主义 cypress 柏树 human profile 人物画 criteria 标准exercises:1.what is an unique feature of chinese painting?2.what is the song dynastys guide to painting about?contentsi. wordsiii. a comb

2、ination of four artsii. categories of chinese paintingiv. four treasures in studyv. exerciseswords1. xieyi school 2. gongbi school3. landscape painting4. figure painting 5. bird-and- flower painting6. neolithic age/ new stone age landscape figure bird-and flower1. objects in the paintingcategories o

3、f chinese painting(1) gongbi school xieyi school2. means of expressioncategories of chinese painting(2)xieyi schoolcategories of chinese painting gongbi school xieyi school2. means of expression xieyi1. exaggerated forms and freehand brush work4. artists do not copy reality.2. emphasize the painters

4、 feelings3. disregard the limitation of proportion, perspective and lightdifferences(1) make the form show the spirit. (以形写神,神形兼备） a painting should express how the artist look at the object. gu kaizhis view likeness in spirit resides in unlikeness. a painting should be something between likeness an

5、d unlikeness. (寄神似于不似之中）followed bytheories about xieyi school1. close attention to details2. fine brush work gongbidifferences(2)w poetryw calligraphyw paintingw seal-engraving (seal-cutting)a combination of four artsdo you know any chinese famous painters ?vxu beihong qi baishi how do you understa

6、nd chinese calligraphy?chinese calligraphy is also called the art of lines. calligraphys purpose is to retain the beauty of nature and illuminate mans spiritual beauty. it stresses the overall layout and harmony between words and lines. the chinese saying “the handwriting reveals the person”, is dir

7、ectly related to calligraphy.strokes (笔画) of chinese charactersthere are 6 basic categories: diandot strokehenghorizontal strokeshuvertical stroke piecurved strokezheangular (角形的角形的) stroke gouhooked (钩形的钩形的) stroke chinese radicalsstrokes form chinese radicals (偏旁偏旁)a radical is the prefix of the w

8、ord. some basic character components are standalone characters (独立成字独立成字), like “土土” and “山山”, but most are just parts of them.the most complicated chinese character ? the number of strokes within a single chinese character ranges from a few to more than 30 strokes.biang, 二声二声(56 strokes )five categ

9、ories of chinese scripts the seal form (zhuan 篆书篆书)the official form (li 隶书隶书)the cursive（草写的）（草写的）form (cao 草书草书) the regular form (kai 楷书楷书) the running form (xing 行书行书)the seal form (篆书) soft lines of strokes and upright rectangular shape keep the seal form characters more close to pictography (象

10、象形文字形文字). each of the characters has a balanced and symmetrical (对称的对称的) pattern. the official form (隶书) it was the turning point in the evolution of chinese scripts and is the foundation of the later script forms. it turned the remaining curved and round strokes of the seal form into linear (直线的直线的

11、) and flat square (扁方形扁方形) shapes. the cursive form (草书) this style of calligraphy is smooth and lively with strokes flowing and characters linking together. the characters are often joined, with the last stroke of one merging into the initial stroke of the next. it is executed freely and rapidly so

12、 that parts of the characters appear exaggerated (夸张的夸张的). the regular form (楷书) it is still todays standard writing. it is square in form, and non-cursive in strokes. size:larger regular form ( more than 5cm ) smaller regular form (smaller than 2cm)medium regular form (in-between)the running form (

13、行书) the running form is somewhere between the regular and the cursive forms allowing simpler and faster writing. the running regular form 行楷行楷 the running cursive form 行草行草 famous chinese calligraphers in historywang xizhi the sage of chinese calligraphy four treasures of the studyfour treasures of

14、the study : brush , ink, paper and ink stone the best of each of these items is represented by: hu brush (湖笔湖笔), hui ink stick (徽墨徽墨), xuan paper (宣纸宣纸) , and duan ink stone (端砚端砚). hu brushhu brushes are produced in the city of huzhou, zhejiang province. made from the hair of a goat or wolf, they a

15、re round, neat, strong, and pointed. the goat hair is soft, suitable for the writing of big characters, while the wolf hair is hard, suitable for the writing of small ones. hui ink stickshui ink sticks are produced in hui city, anhui province. they are made from the ash of burnt green pine from moun

16、t huangshan and then mixed with glue. xuan paperxuan paper is a special type of high quality paper produced in xuancheng and jing county of anhui province. made in an 18-step process from the bark of the wingceltis (青檀青檀) tree and rice straw, the paper is snow-white, soft, durable, absorbent (吸收性的吸收

17、性的) and moth-proof. duan ink stonesduan ink stones were first introduced in duanzhou, now are produced in zhaoqing city, guangdong province.they have a fine, solid texture and a glossy sheen (光泽光泽). ink prepared in them does not dry quickly. “eight ways of writing chinese characters”(永字八法)there is a

18、n old method passed down from generation to generation, practicing the character “永永” repeatedly because it contains the eight basic dots and strokes. assignment1. “诗中有画，画中有诗诗中有画，画中有诗”是评价国画的标准之一。是评价国画的标准之一。2. 作为一项传统艺术作为一项传统艺术,在中国艺术史上在中国艺术史上,书法与国画书法与国画占有同样重要的地位，是民族文化遗产中不可缺少占有同样重要的地位，是民族文化遗产中不可缺少的一部分。

19、的一部分。3. chinese pavilions have always been an important composition of landscape garden. some pavilions are built to decorate parks, and some, in the middle of the lake, make an integrated mass with the scenery around them. 1. “诗中有画，画中有诗诗中有画，画中有诗”是评价国画的标准之是评价国画的标准之一。一。 “painting in poetry and poetry in painting” hasbecome one of the criteria for evaluating traditionalchinese paintin