Flowers and Birds Creation: Fifty Examples - Square Section: Square Section

Author: Yang Xianjin
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This series is divided into five major parts—scrolls, square paintings, fan surfaces, round edges, and booklets—based on form and size. Each part is further represented by three forms: flowers and birds, landscapes, and figures, totaling fifteen volumes. Each volume contains fifty self-drawn examples by the author, providing guidance on aspects such as paper and brush preparation, composition arrangement, painting process, seal appreciation, and artwork reviews. It also includes instructions on origami folding, inscribing titles, stamp usage, common painting knowledge, and an anthology of poetic inscriptions to enhance its practicality. This series aims to offer readers a practical technical guide and specific references, but true mastery requires unremitting practice from the reader. It is not to suggest that (master) guidance equips one with a universal key. To think that this alone can lead to artistic excellence is impossible—if one places complete trust in books, they might as well not read any at all!