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国画 guó huà
Chinese Traditional Painting
The Types:
‘Meticulous’ Painting
Realistic painting with fine brush strokes, close attention to detail
工笔 Gōng Bi
Landscape Painting 山水画 shan shui hua
One of the most popular forms
Black ink or colour
Mountains, Rivers
Figure Painting
Historical Figures
Story Characters
Females
Flower and Bird
Brushes
• Specific brush techniques and strokes • Dotting methods, especially for
plants• Rabbit hair, sheep hair, deer and
ox, goat hair.• Round brushes regain ‘bounce’
when wet, and enable painter to vary width by adding or decreasing pressure
Ink
Often black, similar or the same as calligraphy ink
Ink cake ground onto painter’s stone slab with water – amount of water changes consistency of ink
Thick ink is glossy
Thin ink is lively and translucent
Paper and Silk
• 纸 和 丝 Zhi he si
• Painted on silk or paper
• Original paper made from pulp and bark
• Different paper absorbencies
• Silk less absorbent, doesn’t show brush strokes
Ceramics
Scrolls