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Author: Yang Xianjin
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This series is organized into five major categories—horizontal scrolls, square paintings, fan-shaped scrolls, circular paintings, and album pages—based on approximate forms and sizes. Each category features depictions in three styles: flowers and birds, landscapes, and figures, totaling fifteen volumes. Each volume includes fifty self-drawn examples by the author, offering guidance on aspects such as paper and ink preparation, composition arrangement, painting process, seal selection and appreciation, and artwork critiques. Additionally, it includes instructions on folding papers, writing inscriptions, using seals, common painting knowledge, and an anthology of poems for painting, all to enhance practicality. This series aims to provide practical technique guidance and specific references for aspiring artists, but true mastery requires relentless practice from the reader. It is not meant to suggest that expert guidance alone holds a universal key. To think that this can lead to artistic excellence is impossible. If one relies solely on books, they may as well not read any at all!