In order to create Chinese painting, we must first master the basic techniques, inherit the advantages of Chinese painting, and actively and boldly explore new techniques on this basis to supplement and supplement the shortcomings of pen and ink. We must not lose the pen and ink and the characteristics of Chinese painting. Secondly, learning the advantages of western painting can only enrich the expressive force of Chinese painting as nutrition and critical absorption.
The painter's creative road is difficult and long. If he wants to be innovative in his works, emotional input is an essential subject. Chinese painting is the expression of emotion and the crystallization of life. Emotion dominates the creation of Chinese painting. Emotion can produce desire. If you don't put your emotions into your creation, you can't draw touching works with good techniques. In a sense, only by putting emotions into Chinese painting works can we create infectious works. In other words, you can create with emotions and let emotions enter the painting.
As a painter, he is proficient in techniques, understands emotional input, and should also have good cultivation. First of all, the cultivation of world outlook is very important. It is the soul of a painter, which determines the ideological tendency of his works and affects his practical activities. The world outlook of Qi Baishi, a famous painter, contains obvious progressive factors. If the painter's world outlook is backward, he will never create works recognized by the people. Immortal works with strong patriotism and progressive thoughts. Although Chinese painting is made of pen and ink, it is a spiritual product, and painting techniques alone are not enough. Painting is also very important. Painting is a character, which will directly affect the taste of works. As the painting theory says; The quality of pen and ink is also like a character. Although pen and ink are prepared, they are rooted in the heart. This shows the importance of ideological and moral cultivation. For painters, strengthening study and cultivation can help them improve their overall creative realm. Similarly, cultural quality can directly affect the expressive force of art, and cultural literacy can enable painters to deeply understand reality, comprehend life, create and understand works, and impact life works with their hearts to make them broader. More comprehensive expression. Secondly, rich and tortuous life experience is the basic material and necessary premise for artists to create. In fact, skill is a gift, but it is impossible without extensive knowledge. You must experience life, seek truth, and experience the true meaning of Chinese painting art from life. As the saying goes; You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Even if a very talented painter keeps him away from social life for a long time, or is unfamiliar with the object to be expressed, his works will fail. A painter should be like a full and vibrant seed, burying his whole body and mind in the soil of life, absorbing nutrients from it and turning it into his own flesh and blood, so as to have a deep understanding and sentiment of life and have more sentiment of life.
The artistic emotion of Chinese painting is an emotional experience of the painter's attitude towards objective things, so only on the basis of skillful techniques can the painter have profound artistic accomplishment and profound understanding of social life, and can he have sincere feelings in the creation of Chinese painting; Only in front of the object of life can we consciously or unconsciously produce the creative passion of "thinking and staying awake at night"; Until the touching artistic image is displayed in the creation of Chinese painting, and the beautiful realm of scene blending is achieved!
-Published in central research institute of culture and history and Shandong Literature and History Research Institute.