![]() ![]() These paintings peaked out between the Tang and Song dynasties (7th to 13th centuries) when these refined paintings were endorsed and collected by the royal families of China. The gongbi style had its beginnings approximately 2000 years ago during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) when Han's political stability and its prosperity favored the advancement of the arts. The term related to gongbi, jiehua (or "boundary painting"), refers to the accurate depiction of architectural forms aided by the ruler. ![]() ![]() It is often highly colored and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects. The gongbi technique uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation. The name is from the Chinese gong jin meaning 'tidy' (meticulous brush craftsmanship). Gongbi ( simplified Chinese: 工笔 traditional Chinese: 工筆 pinyin: gōng bǐ Wade–Giles: kung-pi) is a careful realist technique in Chinese painting, the opposite of the interpretive and freely expressive xieyi (寫意 'sketching thoughts') style. Line quality is important, and it is guided by experience, discipline, and exploration of a painter, and you can only paint well when you learn and understand how to go with the texture/ pattern of the objects and strokes.Ĭhinese brushes/ painting is all about beauty, meaning that you need to be able to express yourself and your art beautifully via the brush strokes.Golden Pheasant and Cotton Rose Flowers with Butterflies (11th century) by Emperor Huizong of Song To understand how to use the Chinese brush effectively, the painter must be able to create a rhythm based on the composition, pattern, softness, or strength of the strokes, bringing these elements together to create something beautiful. Generally, the Chinese brushes and Chinese painting is designed to determine an artist’s ability to illustrate an object’s main features. Nothing painted is corrected, fixed, or improved upon, primarily because the painting done with the Chinese brush symbolizes simplicity, and this is seen through the graceful designs and flowing brush strokes. The techniques used in making these brushes are listed as national-level intangible cultural heritages, and these specifications were made in 2006 and in 2008.īesides the differences in texture and the size of the brushes, the Chinese brushes also differ in terms of the hair sources, the hair texture and size, and the length of the hairs.Ī painter using the Chinese brush doesn’t use any models or sketches they paint from memory, which means that their paintings are creations of their impressions/ imaginations of objects. Some of the biggest brands of Chinese brushes include the Hu brushes from Huzhou and Xuan brushes from Jing County. In between the hard and the soft brushes are the brushes that are made of two hair types, both mixed in different proportions, resulting in more versatile/ mixed writing/ painting effects. On the other hand, you have the brushes that are made of pig or weasel hairs – these brushes are harder and preferred by the artists needing more sharp styles. The yanghao is quite soft, and it has a higher ink retention capacity hence its use in painting and in calligraphy where edgeless and milder stroke styles are preferable. The most common material used for the hair is wool, referred to as Yanghao in Chinese. To adapt to different writing and painting styles, the brushes are made of different types of hairs. ![]()
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