Chinese Painting

Painting in China has a long history of evolution and refinement, one that is entirely unique comparing to the other ways of painting humanity has ever developed. The major element of traditional Chinese painting was nature motif, and a work itself was an attempt to capture a feeling, or an immediate response, not an image. Such attitude toward art gave Chinese painting a mainly expressive character in both of its techniques and materials.

Illustrated history of Chinese painting

• Chinese brush
• rice paper
• ink
• paints

There are two branches in traditional Chinese painting - meticulous and freehand style, and each of them is further divided into three sub-branches by subjects - landscape, flower-bird and figure painting. What discusses here is an introduction of how a work of a particular style is created in China. Its techniques are far more complicated in practice.

meticulous

freehand