Principles of Composition in Chinese Painting

Author: Li Feng
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Research on painting creation must first begin with the study of composition. This is because artistic creation is a systematic engineering composed of multiple links, and composition is a crucial early stage of this system. Composition is also an important way for painters to express their artistic ideas, initially materialize their creative concepts and artistic thoughts into visual forms, and thus form a unique artistic style. For painters, they generally do not choose familiar compositional forms that may become tedious to begin their creations. Instead, they prefer to reflect mysterious concepts, vivid storylines, and sharp conflicts of interest through uniquely crafted compositional forms. In this sense, painting creation is a spiritual labor that is rarely bound by rules, unconventional, and extremely rich in variation, with personalized expressive styles that seek differentiation as its foundation. Composition can also be seen as the skeleton of painting, the bones and structure of a work. Artistic creation is a systematic engineering composed of multiple links, and composition is a crucial early stage of this system. Composition is also an important way for painters to express their artistic ideas, initially materialize their creative concepts and artistic thoughts into visual forms, and thus form a unique artistic style.