Flower-and-bird painting in Song Dynasty;

There are nearly 2,000 works by 30 flower and bird painters in the court of the Northern Song Dynasty, which are recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Xuan He Hua Pu", and more than 20,000 kinds of flowers have been painted. The flowers and birds in the Northern Song Dynasty mainly inherited the traditions of the Five Dynasties. In the early days, the painting style was mainly yellow, and the method of "sketching and coloring" was basically adopted, with rich themes and inconspicuous ink lines.

By the Southern Song Dynasty, more than half of the painters in the Academy painted flowers and birds, which was a peak in the history of flower-and-bird painting in China. In terms of subject matter, there are ink paintings of plum, bamboo, pine and orchid in Song Dynasty, which are light and oblique, not only tangible, but also like.

With anthropomorphic methods, we entrust the lofty, chaste, open-minded, upward and strong to the "Four Gentlemen". The addition of this literati painting idea has injected new content into flower-and-bird painting. This school, represented by Wen Tong and Su Shi, has been different from the fresh style of popular fashion, won the praise of the government and the public, and accelerated their painting style to become a new fashion.

The definition and expression of flower-and-bird painting;

1, definition of flower-and-bird painting

Flower and bird painting is a kind of Chinese painting, which depicts flowers, birds and insects. In Chinese painting, all paintings that describe flowers, flowers and birds, fish and insects are called flower-and-bird paintings. There are three painting methods of flower-and-bird painting: meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and concurrent painting. Fine brushwork flower-and-bird painting is to outline the object with thick and light ink, and then color it layer by layer.

2, flower-and-bird painting performance

Highlight the main body in composition, be good at tailoring, and pay attention to the contrast between reality and reality in layout. Moreover, in freehand flower-and-bird painting, he is especially good at writing poems with calligraphy and painting style, supplemented by seals, which has become a comprehensive art form based on painting.

In terms of painting methods, flower-and-bird painting is more specific and implicit than landscape painting, and richer than figure painting, so meticulous color setting is more realistic or has certain decorative significance, while freehand flower-and-bird painting is more concise, more procedural and difficult.