The Chinese Literati Painting Tradition

The tradition of Chinese literary paintings is astonishing at the beauty of Chinese landscape, vast space, complex space, imaginative rich structure, subtle color and so on. For Westerners, they are beautiful, but for the Chinese, they are even more beautiful. These pictures embody or describe all aspects of Tao. Calligraphy and images of each painting have a spiritual meaning. Artists and scholars can spend many years seeking understanding in every job. The understanding he is seeking is not only the scene he sees, but the general structure and himself.

Ink painting, also called ink painting (/ ˌ lpaintingtərɑːti /), is an East Asian type brush painted using black ink - the same as used in East Asian calligraphy - various concentrations. For centuries, this form of Chinese art has been practiced by highly educated scholars and literary scholars. According to documentary evidence, landscape paintings were drawn in the fifth century Chinese Liu Song dynasty era. The Tang Dynasty (618-907) further developed ink painting. A poet / painter of the 8th century, One Way, is generally thought to be a painter who draws existing ink paintings. In Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) art developed into a more elegant style. Immediately after discovering ink in China, it was introduced to Korea. In Japan, ink was introduced in the Nara era, and it quickly became popular among the upper classes.

Paintings of the Ming Dynasty have two main traditions, the "literary painting" (literary painting) of the Wu scholar (literary painting) and the "specialist scholar" (horticultural school) related to the Zhejiang School, but the artists generally It emphasizes independent creation and is impressive. Their work has a strong individual style. There are many new developments and continuations of established traditions in ceramics. There are three main types of decoration emerging: celadon, red, green, yellow, underglaze copper red, cobalt blue, and glaze, or enamel, sometimes glazed blue. The latter is often called "blue and white" and was imitated in Vietnam, Japan, and Europe in the 17th century. Most of these porcelain are produced in Jiangsu Jingdezhen's big factory.