Chinese Painting

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Chinese Painting
COMP 913 Technical Communication in Computer
Science

• Li Guan
• lguan_at_cs.unc.edu
• March 2nd 2007

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Outline

• ABCs of Chinese painting
• Basic elements
• Brief history
• Tools
• Appreciation of the art
• Rules styles
• Variations
• Characteristics

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Basic elements
Main Drawing
Description (Poems, etc.)
Signature
Date
Frame
Stamp
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Brief history

• Little painting remains from the early periods
  except for that on ceramics and tiles
• Clearly recorded from 5th century Dunhuang.

Dunhuang Cave No. 249, Western Wei(386 AD 534
AD)
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Brief History (cont.)

• The art of figure painting reached a peak of
  excellence in the T'ang dynasty (618 AD 906 AD)
• In the Sung dynasty (960 AD 1279 AD)
• landscape/animal painting reached
• its greatest expression.

Part of Eighty seven celestials people, a draft
painting of fresco, by WU, Daozi (c.685 AD 758
AD)
Bamboo Sparrows, by Emperor Huizong (1082 AD
1135 AD)
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Brief History (cont.)

• The Yüan dynasty (1260 AD 1368 AD)
• Brush Controlling Tech.
• The Ming dynasty (1368 AD 1644 AD)
• many paintings survive into our times
• The Ch'ing dynasty (1644 AD 1912 AD)
• Contemporary (1912 AD )
• learning from western classic drawing and painting

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Tools

• The "Four Treasures
• Brush
• Ink
• Ink-stone
• Chinese Xuan paper

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Brush

• Bamboo body
• Fur tip
• Sheep (soft)
• Goat (medium)
• Wolf (hard)
• etc.
• The way to hold

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Ink

• Smoke grains
• Glued together
• Some famous ink
• Hui ink
• Work together with ink stone

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Ink Stone

• Used to grind the ink with water
• Plane region, concave region
• Four famous ink stones
• Duan, She, Yaohe, Chengni
• Collection
• Color, texture, carving

How it works
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Chinese Xuan Paper

• Xuan paper is specially famous for Chinese
  painting and calligraphy. It was recorded to be
  invented in Tang dynasty.
• Named after the location of mass-production from
  Song dynasty.
• Good absorption, strong, good for storage

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Objective Outline

• ABCs of Chinese painting
• Basic elements
• Brief history
• Tools
• Appreciation of the art
• Rules styles
• Variations
• Characteristics

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Rules

• Ink vs. Color
• Think/plan vs. drawing

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Rules

• Ink vs. Color
• Thinking/planning vs. drawing
• Brush controlling
• Ink controlling

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Styles by subject

• Figure
• Bird flower (animals plants)
• Landscape

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Styles by techniques
Delicate linesUse of colorsEmphasis on shapes
Variation of brushesInk water Emphasis on
spirit of the character
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Styles by techniques (con.)

• Gong1 Bi3 ??

• Xie3 Yi4 ??

Pine eagle, ZHANG, Shunzi (Yuan Dynasty)
Soaring, XU, Beihong
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Styles by techniques (con.)

• Gong1 Bi3 ??

• Xie3 Yi4 ??

Gentlelady, by CUI, Jingzhe
Lady Kui Zhong, by FAN, Zeng
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Variations
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Comparison with Oil Painting
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Comparison with Oil Painting (con.)
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Summary

• ABCs of Chinese painting
• Basic elements
• Brief history
• Tools
• Appreciation of the art
• Rules styles
• Variations
• Characteristics

Drawing, description, signature, date, stamp,
frame
Brush, ink, ink stone, paper
Figure, bird flower, landscape
Brush control, ink control
Comparison with Western art
Lets see a video
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Reference

• http//www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0857309.html
• http//www.artzbox.com/articles_chinese/chinesepai
  ntinginfo.htm
• Rohit Saboo, Ashish Awasthi and Xiaoxiao Liu for
  comments.

Acknowledgement