# nature and life image

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**Published on:** 2022-09-22
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## Content

The images of nature and life composed of shape, quality, light and color are objective objects. In order to express objective objects vividly in artworks, the most basic means adopted by the author are lines, surfaces, colors and pens. Draw and shape artistic images through lines, surfaces, colors, and pens. Taking line as an example, in nature, the objects in life are only the boundaries between objects, and there is no "line" in painting. Things such as silk threads and hair are actually cylinders or polyhedral cylinders. The "line" in painting is a general artistic means of people's understanding of the shape of objects. The so-called artistic means means that its essence is aesthetic. This aesthetic line is the most concise artistic means to describe the shape and image. From ancient my country's line carving, line drawing and Greek bottle painting, line is the main artistic means. It is difficult to describe texture and light perception only by relying on lines. Only by combining lines, surfaces and colors can it be effective. The expression of color requires color, and line, surface, and color are all realized in painting through certain brushwork (and knife technique in oil painting). Chinese painting and calligraphy place great emphasis on brushwork. "Brush and ink" has become the traditional essence of Chinese painting. Although Western oil painting is not as in-depth as Chinese painting, it can be seen that Western oil painting pays more and more attention to brushwork according to the development of painter's brushwork in his works. When Chinese painters learn Western oil painting and sketching, they are always easy to enter the country in terms of brushwork, and it is easier to overcome some of the craftsmanship and tackiness of Western oil painting such as "grinding" and "drawing". Lines, surfaces, colors and other means of expression can only enter the high-level aesthetic field if the image is "written" through the pen. Images written in brushwork can often appeal to emotions more directly, expressing the author's emotions incisively and vividly. Therefore, lines, surfaces, colors and brushes with aesthetic significance can be said to be the most basic artistic means of painting creation. To master these artistic methods, one must first understand and study the laws of shape, quality, light, and color of objective objects, and only then can a higher level of freedom be obtained in the representation and expression of art. Among them, shape and color are the most important. . Especially the law of shape, which is inseparable from all plastic arts. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for some people to think that sketching is the basis of all plastic arts. The sketch here refers to the sketch in a broad sense. The so-called sketch by Western artists is essentially an artistic method to study and master the laws of shape. In this sense, it has roughly the same function as Chinese line drawing. Some people understand sketching in a narrow sense. It seems that only plaster sketches drawn with pencils and charcoal strips can be called sketches. This leads to misunderstandings, and even requires the use of Western-style sketches to replace traditional Chinese line drawings. bring losses. Therefore, it is the foundation of all plastic arts to study and master the laws of body structure from an aesthetic point of view.

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