What are the six theories of ancient Chinese painting?

Xie He's "Six Essays" through the ages in the Southern Dynasties

Xie He was a famous painter in the Southern Dynasties. Unfortunately, there are no paintings to be examined today, but his "Ancient Paintings" is a masterpiece of Chinese painting. An important masterpiece in history. In the book, he criticized the works of 27 painters of the previous generation, which is almost the first systematic summary in the history of Chinese painting creation. Among them, the "Six Methods" theory proposed by him is particularly wonderful and has a profound influence on the creation of ancient Chinese paintings.

Xie He's Six Theory of Laws has established the eternal evaluation criteria for Chinese calligraphy and painting. We who study calligraphy and painting must

experience it carefully:

One day : The charm is vivid; the second is: the bone method and the brush; the third is: the management position (i.e., the composition); the fourth is: the shape of the object;

The fifth is: applying color according to the category (i.e., setting the color); the sixth is: ：Transfer and copying (copying)

From the perspective of arrangement order, the most important thing in calligraphy and painting is "vivid charm", but "vivid charm" depends to a large extent on the last five items.

< p>In fact, Xie He’s Six Methods of Painting, in the final analysis, vividness and charm are not the methods of painting, but refer to the overall artistic principles and realm of the work. Therefore, photography as a visual art must be correctly understood in terms of creation and aesthetic theory discussion. The traditional aesthetic principle of "vividness and vitality" should not be copied mechanically from the artistic style of traditional Chinese painting. Vividness and vitality were originally applied to figure paintings, and then developed into appreciation of landscape paintings. Later, there were even "line (brush) vitality" and "ink" in Chinese painting theory. At this point, it is very clear how photography can have national characteristics, that is, it must express the aesthetic psychology of "qi" in lines and shapes, and it must conform to "rhyme" in color. "Aesthetic criteria. Therefore, photography must absorb nutrients from our country's traditional art and at the same time give full play to the characteristics of photography. This is the broad way to explore the national character of photography.