Ink Painting Copying

Chinese art has the same origin with Chinese ancient culture, with the history of five or six thousand of years.Landscape painting with china ink with three thousand years of history is the accumulation of culture and life and represents one chapter of the Chinese pictorial arts. Since Wang Yu of Tang Dynasty, it experienced continuous changes and development. Although it has a little later beginning than the figure, flower and bird painting, Landscape painting occupies important place in the Chinese painting.What is model copying? It is just copying model of painting. Model copying is a teaching method of creative painting, one of the methods of learning creative painting developed throughout the history of painting. Nowadays it is prevalent to neglect tradition and concentrate to creation. Some people even think that copying model will suppress personality of painters. If you neglect the tradition, you cannot expect any innovation.For those who learn painting art, copying model is a procedure of learning tradition, importance and necessity of which cannot be neglected.What is painting art? It means to carry the object on the screen. Copying model is just one of the methods learning painting. What kind of painting is called good works of India ink? There are a lot of factors, but without nice brush and ink, without good image, the painting will be a sheet of paper painted without "soul". The only way is to analyze and study ancestor's skill and soul through copying model.There is a proverb: "Only when you are aware of the origin, you can learn new", which means that only when you thoroughly studied tradition, you can make creative works. Copying model is just recognizing tradition, and understanding tradition. In other words, it is the procedure of reading and understanding ancestor's painting language and training ourselves. Although copying model is the method of learning tradition, you cannot stop at this step and stay in the tradition. Copying model is a transitional condition of learning painting.This essay does not raise a new special problem, only insisting the role and importance of copying model in the procedure of learning modern landscape painting of India ink, which I freshly recognized through my experience of life and study.