It can be roughly divided into four categories: Gongbi white drawing, Gongbi light color, Gongbi heavy color and boneless Gongbi. In terms of performance content, it can be divided into: landscapes, flowers and birds, and figures (ladies and Buddha statues).

Line drawing is a painting method that uses lines as a means of expression. It relies on the hardness and softness of the lines themselves, thickness, clumsiness, squareness, roundness, density and other changes to express various objects. At the same time, the lines themselves also have a certain abstract aesthetic effect. Line drawing is also an independent art in terms of the entire Chinese painting.

Paint color is a method of first painting the object to eight or nine points using ink color, and then slightly rendering it with light colors. The light color must be such that the color does not block the ink and the ink does not separate from the color. It can be integrated and show the charm of the ink, so as to produce an elegant and simple effect.

The method of outlining and dyeing with heavy colors is mainly based on service attitude and material color. Because the colors are thicker, the color is richer and more decorative, which is called heavy colors. The heavy color rendering should be done in such a way that the thin medium is thick, the thick medium is moist, the dyeing does not show traces, and the depth is natural. Wu Gu uses color or ink to directly draw the flowers and leaves, without a "pen bone" (the outline outlined by the ink line).

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Innovation

Traditional gongbi painting pursues vivid brushwork, rich rendering levels, and delicate and realistic images. As a representative Chinese painting subject, artists need to continue to innovate, so that gongbi painting will have eternal vitality.

At the beginning of the last century, European painting was introduced to us, which had a great impact on traditional painting art. Specifically in terms of gongbi painting, it was mainly the change of modeling concepts, drawing on the sketching methods of Western painting, and figures. The painting creation is particularly outstanding. Furthermore, contemporary gongbi painting also incorporates some expression techniques of watercolor painting, because watercolor and gongbi painting have many similarities in terms of materials and tools.

Secondly, in terms of expressive content, contemporary gongbi paintings also break through the clear boundaries between landscapes, flowers and birds, and figures, and integrate the three just right, giving traditional gongbi paintings a unique expression in content. Wide spaces.

The most distinctive feature of gongbi painting is its delicate brushwork, which expresses vivid and realistic objects. Western classical oil paintings also have this feature, so contemporary gongbi painting also shows this feature, especially through delicate rendering. , showing the effect of three-dimensional oil painting. In terms of innovative exploration of contemporary meticulous painting, powerful painters Guo Jindong and Wu Jialing have explored and practiced from multiple angles.

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