| “Bi” and "Xing" are literary techniques used in Chinese classical literature, especiallypoetry,“to express the writer’s ideas and feelings by comparing one thing to another” or “todescribe something by talking about another thing (or other things) first as a decoration. Theseare also important aesthetic techniques commonly used in traditional Chinese painting,especially in the Birds and Flowers painting. By using "Bi" and "Xing" in traditional Chinesepoetry, there have come out so many brilliant and so enduring literary works. Meanwhile, itwas just by means of "Bi" and "Xing" that traditional Chinese painters enabled themselves tocombine their own emotional feelings with the objective images in the birds and flowerspaintings so that the artist’s own unique feeling can be fully revealed and embodied in theirown paintings. Because of this, we can say that “Bi” and "Xing" are important means in theartist’s performance practices in the Chinese Birds and Flowers Painting creation. Whileenjoying the paintings of birds and flowers, the artist’s feelings and emotions are sure to beseen or at least sensed in the images of the birds and flowers (and even other things connected)because the artist himself or herself just intended to show them in these images. In otherwords, the images created in the paintings are just used as the media of the artist’s creationwork. Flowers and birds painters choose their painting objects for their painting cautiously,which process is called “Bi”. Another process, in which the artist conveys a feeling or anemotion that is based on but beyond the images of the birds and flowers or other things thatartists create in their paintings(This is what is called “to show feelings and emotions through objects”), is “Xing”. the so-called "focused on the matter". Therefore it can be said that thecreation of flowers and birds paintings is definitely not a naturalistic copy of the images ofthings but a way “to express one’s ambitions, feelings and emotions through these images”.This is what the Chinese Flowers and Birds Painting advocates----a flower stands for a world,while a leaf represents Rulai (the most capable god in the story of Buddhism), which is alsothe philosophy origin of the aesthetic ideas. It is also a good reflection of the realm in theFlowers and Birds Painting----“images and their painters, Heaven and man are so wellcombined just as a whole.”This essay contains three chapters. The first chapter gives a brief introduction of “Bi”and “Xing” from a literary point of view. The second chapter focuses on the exposition of theuse of “Bi” and "Xing" and their functions in Chinese Flower and Bird paintings. The writerof this essay has also listed some flower and bird painting artists and analyzed their art worksto come to this conclusion: By using “Bi” and "Xing" in the flower and bird paintings, thepainter can not only reach a better combination of human nature and the nature of the thingsthey create as a whole and better express the painter’s feelings and emotions, but also improvethe artistic charm and enhance the artistic appeal of bird and flower painting. Meanwhile, thewriter has stated the extension and expansion of the usage in contemporary Chinese Flowersand Birds Painting by giving examples. Finally, based on her own painting experience, thewriter has given her own ideas and opinions on the means of “Bi” and “Xing”. In her opinion,if an artist wants to create outstanding works in flowers and birds painting, the painter mustfirst emotionally reach a complete agreement with the things to be painted and find theiremotional resonance, and then create his art works by using artistic imagination andexaggeration so as to create such a realm in the Birds and Flowers Painting----" images andtheir painters, Heaven and man are so well combined just as a whole.”... |
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