Chinese Landscape Painting Blank Analysis Techniques

"Blank left" is an essential form of landscape painting, and is of significant importance to Chinese landscape painting creation. No matter how many connotations, artistic conceptions or sentiment, blank left were expressed in each painting throughout the development course of landscape painting."Black and white contrast" makes up the prerequisite of landscape painting appreciation together with" lively spirit and charm style". The purpose of this paper is to explore the technical methods of "blank left" in Chinese landscape painting creation. Based on the analysis of formal rules of "blank left" in classic landscape paintings, the technical methods of "blank left" in Chinese landscape painting were comprehensively summed up, which would make us to create modern landscape paintings effectively under the guidance of thoughts. The basic knowledge of landscape painting creation of modern landscape painters are accumulated mostly through sketching practice, and whose artistic accomplishment and skills were improved through resolving difficulties about "blank left" in the process of painting.The main contents are as follows:The chapter one introduced the concept of "blank left". Summarizing the relationship of blank and white through discussing the concept "blank left", and summarizing the significance of "blank left" through comparing different paintings with or without "blank left". The chapter two analysised the causes of the technical methods of "blank left" from two aspects. The first one was to analysis the theoretical background of the origin of "blank left", and the second one was to analysis the particularities of painting materials used in landscape painting. The chapter three treatised the mainly manifest of "blank left" expressed in Chinese landscape painting creation.Under the new situation of the development of contemporary Chinese landscape painting, it is not only the inevitable requirement of understanding the development direction of contemporary Chinese landscape painting, but also the main way of resolving problems revealed by contrast relation and the relation of brush and ink that researching and straighten up specific types of the technical methods of "blank left". Only by making it clear about the technical methods of "blank left" can we integrate the two development trends of traditional Chinese landscape painting and contemporary Chinese landscape painting. Through its development process from scatter perspective to current situation, the techniques of chinese landscape painting had influenced by western sketch, shapes, chiaroscuro and so on, and span-new connotation of technical methods of "blank left" had been engendered in the terms of composition and ink in Chinese landscape painting creation.This study focused on the technical methods of "blank left" in Chinese landscape painting creation. Its forms and contents was summarized trough analysing the main technical methods of "blank left" utilized in Chinese landscape painting creation. Furthermore, The functions and influences of the technical methods of "blank left" to Chinese landscape painting creation had also been summarized. The significance of the study is to explore the creative realm, and to research the innovation and development trend of contemporary Chinese landscape painting.