Flower-and-bird painting developed into Tang Dynasty. Due to political stability, economic prosperity and unprecedented activity in culture and art, poetry and calligraphy have reached a peak, making flower-and-bird painting gradually independent of mountains and rivers and become an independent painting discipline. At this time, flower-and-bird painting has become a trend with figure painting and landscape painting.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, works with flowers and birds, landscapes, gardens, fruits and vegetables as themes appeared. At this time, most of the flower-and-bird paintings appear with a certain decorative figure painting background, which is the embryonic stage of flower-and-bird paintings.
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.
The characteristics of freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting;
1, the composition system is completed.
In composition, flower-and-bird painting not only depicts a certain flower or a certain bird, but takes flowers and birds as the main body, emphasizing the collocation of various animals, plants and utensils in the painting, reflecting some spiritual significance. In addition, according to the theme of the painting, choose the appropriate form of poetry and calligraphy, and combine it with the seal to become a complete artwork.
2, exaggerated shape, strong color
There is a certain gap between the images in flower-and-bird paintings and natural objects in shape and color. When painting, exaggerating the unique characteristics of flowers and birds makes the flowers more colorful and the branches more beautiful.
In the use of color, it is mainly objective color, and it can also be changed for the needs of the picture, such as drawing leaves with ink to set off the delicate and charming flowers. These treatments can make the picture more decorative.
3. Emphasize subjective artistic conception
A good flower-and-bird painting is not only for painting flowers and birds, but also for expressing one's feelings through the things in the painting. The painter's aesthetic thought is based on the change of natural image, and is pinned on the aesthetic reconstruction of flowers, birds and insects in nature, with the focus on expressing a person's spiritual world.