Black and white theory

Author: Wang Hongli
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: "Black and White Art Theory" by Wang Hongli. Published by Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House in May 1991. 298 pages. Collects over a thousand outstanding black and white artworks from ancient and modern China and the world. Covering everything from the vast natural world to the complex human society, the book comprehensively includes examples. The author analyzes and summarizes the illustrations from the perspective of aesthetic theory, deeply revealing the characteristics of form. The task of responding to the form is characterized by the direct impact it has on the audience through the formal sense and formal beauty of the shaping images. Therefore, works from various eras, regions, and outstanding masters were selected to seek and summarize the laws of artistic form and the various factors that constitute form. The book consecutively discusses 18 issues related to the factors that constitute the sense of form, the laws and means of forming formal beauty, techniques, as well as the styles, expressive means, and techniques of various painting schools since the 19th century, comprehensively and systematically visualizing the theory of visual arts.