Painting Techniques
According to painting techniques, Chinese painting can be divided into two styles: the Bong bi or the fine-brush style and the less approach called Xie yi or "sketching ideas".
Gong bi is characterized by its delicacy and its precision in detail. It has a lot of meaning. In the word Gong bi, Gong takes the sense of "meticulous", "delicate". Bi generally indicates the tools for writing, but it has also the meaning of "to write". By there we already guess the style of painting corresponding in this term. The technique Gong Bi seeks the delicacy, the precision of the details. It needs a good technique and a lot of patience. Xie yi is characterized by a full layout and mainly uses the principle of the range. Xie means "to write" and Yi means "meaning". A famous Master of Chinese painting, Zhang Da qian, said that Xie Yi indicated the fact of drawing the spirit of the beings. Painting Xie Yi uses many techniques of calligraphy which privilege the spontaneity of the line. Paintings Xie Yi are thus very quickly carried out but it needs a very long experience.
Generally, Chinese painting is made up of one or more poems, calligraphy, a painted image and the seal of the artist. Inscription on a painting is an art technique that a painter must master, as well as an important factor in determining whether a painting is good or not. Inscriptions mainly refer to the painter’s autograph, date of completion, the collectors' name and a short description or poem. When the painting does not quite fully convey the painter’s feelings, he inscribes it with a fully poem. For instance, in a painting of bamboo, there might be an accompanying poem. It is a must today to affix a real seal on a Chinese ink painting without color to make the painting look harmonious and the design more appealing.
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