Contemporary Painting Flower And-bird Painting Style Diversity Characteristics Analysis

Meticulous flowers-and-birds painting, with a long history of more than two thousand years, isone of the forms that traditional paintings take. Characterized by its meticulousness, artistic feature ofelegance and beauty and the image-representing features with lines constructing shapes, it hasvarious forms such as sketch, meticulous light color and meticulous strong coloring.With the rapid development of Chinese economy and society, contemporary meticulousflowers-and-birds painting enjoys an unprecedented prosperity, especially since the Reform andOpening-up of China. It has been influenced by flooding cultural and artistic thinking and ideas.Various technologies, new materials, new painting methods and techniques come into play inmeticulous flowers-and-birds painting. The traditional meticulous flowers-and-birds painting with linesconstructing shapes and coloring gives way a multi-development. The representational styles andtechniques begin to take on various features.This paper takes as the cutting point the stylistic varieties of contemporary meticulousflowers-and-birds painting and develops the research in this area by succeeding the traditionalmeticulous flowers-and-birds painting. From the perspective of rational painting, it provides acomprehensive and systematic analysis to various stylistic characteristics of contemporary meticulousflowers-and-birds painting and it, at the same time, offers an objective analysis about the causes of themultiplicity of styles. By combining the author’s own reflections on the study, it further makes anacademic and practical exploration on tendencies of future developments and possible innovations ofmeticulous flowers-and-birds painting.