Chapter 163 boundary painting

The beauty of ancient Chinese architecture is world-famous, such as pavilions, terraces, palaces and temples, corridors and pavilions, cornices, bucket arches, and intrigues. "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Sigan" describes it as "like a bird's leather, like a cockroach". Pheasant bird in flight.It is very difficult to describe these buildings, especially large-scale buildings such as palaces and gardens, with freehand brushwork that does not pay much attention to realism, so most of these paintings use fine brushwork.In order to ensure the accuracy of the shape and the symmetry of the lines, they even adopted the same method as the primary and middle school students draw lines, using a ruler, which is the boundary painting.

Don’t think that it’s easy in this way. The boundary painting has very high requirements on the composition, perspective, structure, and response of buildings.Zhao Mengfu once taught his son Zhao Yong to study world painting and said: "All paintings may be fabricated, but there is no such thing as a world painting that does not use labor law." Boundary paintings appeared very early, probably in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.In the Tang Dynasty, Li Sixun's "Jiucheng Gong Fan Tu" and "Palace Garden Tu" had achieved relatively high achievements. In the late Tang Dynasty, Yin Jizhao came out. In the Five Dynasties, there were Wei Xian, Zhao Deyi, Zhao Zhongyi and others. thousands of miles.Especially in the Painting Academy of the Song Dynasty, the boundary painting was more refined.Deng Chun's "Painting Succession" said: "The painting academy circles are the most skilled, and they are dedicated to promoting new ideas." In the Yuan Dynasty, there were Wang Zhenpeng and Li Rongjin, in the Ming Dynasty there was Qiu Ying, and in the Qing Dynasty there were Yuan Jiang and Yuan Yao.