How to judge the quality of a painting?

For most people, the appreciation of a painting is limited to whether you can "understand" it. What is this? Does it look like it? The operator does not conform to the objective reality. If they understand the painting, they think it is good, otherwise they will give it a bad review. In fact, such a judgment is not comprehensive or in-depth.

I listened to Mr. Wang's comments on my homework these days. When he saw colorful peony and litchi, he praised it. When he saw me draw a blue peony, he felt incredible. Especially yesterday, when he saw that I drew three black chickens, he criticized me for having no common sense, saying that the chicken fluff was yellow, so how could it be painted black? I explained that it was an artistic treatment, and Chinese painting mainly used ink and wash. Whether the chicken is yellow or black depends on the needs of the picture, but he still doesn't understand.

If I give my homework to the "expert" teacher for comment, he will point out the advantages and disadvantages from the aspects of pen and ink, composition and so on, so that you can continue to carry forward or solve the existing problems.

What do people in the industry think of paintings? As far as Chinese painting is concerned, looking at a painting is generally to look at the overall momentum of the picture first. In artistic terms, it is to appreciate its "charm" first, and then look at its pen and ink interest, composition, color setting, brushwork and so on. Finally, look at its shape, that is, whether it is like or "similar". This kind of appreciation method of "verve" by insiders certainly captures the essence, because "verve" is an elegant artistic aesthetic enjoyment, which is often the realm that China painters strive to achieve.

Whether the painting likes it or not, whether the color is bright or dark, whether the lines are smooth or clumsy, and so on. In short, you should feel calmly by intuition. The master said that painting does not pursue realism, but should be grasped between image and non-image. The key to painting is to have a personal style and draw things that others don't have. Common pictures are often the work of craftsmen, which is not desirable!

In fact, judging whether a painting is good or not is also a form of appreciation, which requires more exhibitions and more tastes. Especially in this era of exquisite everything, the viewer is required to calm down and feel a painting carefully in order to truly feel the charm of painting art.