Bird-and-flower painting (in chinese ???) is a kind of Chinese painting named after its subject matter. Normally, most bird-and-flower paintings belong to the scholar-artist style of Chinese painting.
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History
According to Chinese tradition, bird-and-flower painting covers "flowers, birds, fish, and insects" (Traditional Chinese: ????, Simplified Chinese: ???? hu?, ni?o, yú, chóng). It can thus deal with a wide range of natural topics, including flowers (plants), fish, insects, birds, pets (dogs, cats) etc.
The huaniao hua (???) or "bird-and-flower painting" is proper of 10th century China. The most representative artists are Huang Quan ?? (c. 900 - 965) and Xu Xi ?? (937-975). They are the masters of two schools: the first school was led by Huang Quan (imperial painter). It is characterised by an "outline" method of brush work, with emphasis on bright colours filling a meticulously outline (gongbi). The other school was led by Xu Xi (never entered into officialdom) and typically used techniques associated with ink-and-wash painting.
The bird-and-flower motif started appearing in Japanese art around the Muromachi period of the 14th century, and developed its own distinct style. It also entered ukiyo-e woodblock printing, where it was known as kach?-e (???). Especially the shin hanga movement produced a number of works with this motif starting in the Meiji era. Artists working with this were Ohara Koson (1877-1945) and Ito Sozan (1884-?), as well as Imao Keinen (1845-1924).
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Varieties
According to painting technique:
- Ink wash painting (????/?????). Representatives: Lin Liang (??), Qi Baishi (???), Zhang Daqian (???)
- Fine-brush (????/?????)
- Fine-brush with Ink and Wash Painting (????/?????). Representatives: Lin Liang (??), Ren Yi (??)
- Fine-brush with Colour (??)
- Fine-brush with Heavy Colour (????)
- Fine-brush with Light Colour (????). Representatives: Emperor Huizong (??), Lü Ji (??), Lin Liang (??)
- Freehand style (????/?????)
- Great Freehand style (???)
- Slight Freehand style (???). Representatives: Tang Yin (??), Xu Wei (??), Wu Changshuo (???), Ren Yi (??)
- Fine-brush with Freehand style (????)
- Representatives: Lin Liang (??), Tang Yin (??)
See also
- Bamboo painting
- Nanpin school
- Mogu
References
External links
Media related to Bird-and-flower paintings at Wikimedia Commons
- Chinese Flower Painting at China Online Museum
- Chinese Bird Painting at China Online Museum
Source of article : Wikipedia
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