The painting style shows strong personal characteristics and aesthetic feelings. Just like the same scenery, everyone feels differently. Some people will paint the colors very strongly, some people will paint quietly, and some people can only express their feelings in words. Of course, there are composition, painting techniques and other aspects to reflect the painter's personal characteristics and aesthetic feelings.
2. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival adopts realistic painting style, which is explained as follows:
1, the realistic style from the perspective of painting content;
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the situation of Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan Province), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, mainly focusing on the natural scenery and prosperity on both sides of the Bianliang River and the Bianhe River. In the form of long scrolls, the author uses the composition method of scattered perspective to bring complicated scenery into a unified and changeable picture. The distance between the bridge and the house within the city wall, the size of grass trees, horses, cows, donkeys and camels, and the trips of residents, pedestrians, boats and cars are all described in detail. The whole painting is magnificent, rigorous in composition and meticulous in brushwork, which fully shows the painter's profound insight into social life and superb artistic expression ability.
There are officials, farmers, businessmen, doctors, priests, monks, Taoist priests, petty officials, women, children, teachers, laborers and other figures, as well as donkeys, horses, cows, camels and other livestock. There are fairs, trading, hanging out, drinking, parties, pushing boats, pulling carts, riding cars, riding horses and so on. There are many shops, hotels, teahouses and dim sum shops in the street, as well as towers, river ports, bridges, cargo ships, government buildings and thatched cottages. There are 1695 people, more than 60 kinds of livestock, more than 20 wooden boats, more than 30 pavilions, and more than 20 sedan chairs. Such rich and colorful contents are rare in ancient paintings of past dynasties. People of all colors engage in various activities, not only with different clothes, but also with different facial expressions and temperament, and interspersed with various activities, full of dramatic plot conflicts, which make the audience have endless aftertaste.
2. The author's realistic style in composition and painting techniques is as follows:
In terms of techniques, he is good at choosing things, scenes and plots that are vivid and poetic and have essential characteristics. Observe life very carefully and portray every character and prop. Everyone has his own identity, way and plot. Buildings, bridges and other buildings are rigorous in structure and detailed in description. Cars, horses and boats cover everything, so we should be small without losing the whole picture and its potential. For example, the objects on the ship, the way of nailing and riveting, and even the method of tying the rope are all explained clearly and magically.
The structure is rigorous, complicated but not chaotic, long but not redundant, and the paragraphs are clear. What is commendable is that such rich and colorful content, prominent theme, echo from beginning to end, the whole volume is seamless. Every figure, scene and detail in the painting are arranged reasonably, and the relationship between the pictures, such as density, simplicity, movement, gathering and dispersion, is handled properly, so as to be complex but not miscellaneous, but not chaotic. It fully shows the painter's profound insight into social life and superb ability to organize and control pictures. From the content, this painting belongs to genre painting and also has the characteristics of genre painting.
Third, this is genre painting.
1, explain genre painting:
Genre painting is a kind of figure painting. It is a figure painting with the theme of social life customs. It began in the Han Dynasty, such as tomb murals, stone reliefs and brick reliefs in Liaoyang and Wang Du.
2. Specific explanation:
Because he depicts the secular human feelings of the Northern Song Dynasty, there are officials, farmers, businessmen, doctors, Taoist priests, Taoist priests, petty officials, women, children, teachers, cable car drivers, donkeys, horses, cows, camels and other animals. There are fairs, trading, hanging out, drinking, parties, pushing boats, pulling carts, riding cars, riding horses and so on. All the above are descriptions of customs.