New Edition of Jiayou Garden Painting Collection: Aquatic Life. Fish

Author: Lu Yuyan, Chen Baodi
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Features: The New Jiezi Garden Paintings gathers nearly one hundred renowned experts, each contributing their expertise to create specialized collections. The creative steps and methods they provide are authoritative and credible. From sketches to life studies to creations, it largely follows a realistic path, demonstrating scientific rigor. At the same time, it selects approximately an equal number of outstanding works from ancient and modern periods to broaden learners' perspectives, supplemented by about 15,000 words of explanatory text to elevate their theoretical understanding. Beyond the major categories of figures, landscapes, flowers, feathers, and beasts, the book also includes sections on calligraphy and seals, as well as writing instruments, making it a comprehensive guide to Chinese painting techniques. The New Jiezi Garden Paintings is an accumulation project of national culture and an important part of the People's Fine Arts Publishing House's "Ninety-Five" publishing plan. The editors are all seasoned professionals. One of the key features of teaching techniques is the continuation of formulaic methods. Whether in opera, dance, or painting, the formulas originate from life—they are specific methods of generalization derived from life phenomena when transformed into artistic forms. Examples such as the eighteen brushwork techniques for figures, the cun and di techniques for trees and rocks, the boundary-drawing techniques for buildings, and the outlining and shading techniques for flowers and birds all represent the accumulation of past generations' observational and representational skills. Creative painters excel at absorbing the achievements of their predecessors.