Literati paintings usually take landscapes, flowers, birds, orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemums, wood and stones as their themes. To express one's "spirit" or personal ambition, sometimes it also contains oppression of the nation or resentment of decadent politics. They admire "morale" and "one product", advocate algae interest, stress pen and ink interest, get rid of similarities, emphasize verve, and attach great importance to the cultivation of literature and calligraphy and the creation of artistic conception of painting.
Main features:
Literati painting is a comprehensive art, which integrates literature, calligraphy, painting and seal cutting. It is a concentrated expression of various cultural qualities of painters, especially in calligraphy.
The unique rhythm and rhythm formed by the weight of brush strokes and the density of dotted lines should reflect the painter's unique mentality, temperament and personality in the creative process, and organically combine these with the form and spirit of the things expressed, so that the heart and hand correspond, the strength is consistent, the traces are broken and even, and the pen is not thoughtful.
The above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Literati Painting