| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 視覺藝術學系 === 106 === This thesis is a study of ancient Chinese literati painting (文人畫), an exquisite genre produced by ancient Chinese scholar-painters. The genre is an ideal blending of poetry, calligraphy, and painting.The artistic traits and calligraphy techniques of Chinese literati painting are fully examined in the thesis.Additionally, this thesis also illustrates how to perform and extend upon these ancient painting skills.
Chinese painting and calligraphy are actually similar. Calligraphy can be considered a particular kind of painting. Chinese character strokes are produced using different brush skills in literati paintings. For example, they use different writing touches to portray the hardness of rock or bamboo. Thus, painting and calligraphy cannot be easily distinguished. Strong brushstrokes are used to represent magnificent mountains, dense forests, and the vast universe while soft brushstrokes depict peaceful scenes.
Scholar-painters seek harmony between the human element and their surroundings while painting. They render their thoughts and feelings by depicting landscapes and writing poems. This concentrated devotion leads them to a state of mind that is just like bathing in cloud and mist, transcendent, sublime. This is the beauty of poetry, calligraphy, and painting in the composition of a single art work.
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