Abstract
The architect Le Corbusier once said this theory: Design has local characteristics and universal characteristics. Local characteristics are greatly influenced by culture. The strokes are the one essence of Chinese painting that characteristics of the strokes are unique to Chinese visual culture. Among Chinese painting strokes, Eighteen Strokes are the typical representative of the aesthetics of Chinese visual culture. However, the current research on the cultural characteristics of Eighteen Strokes is insufficient. The objective of this article is taking Xie He’s Six Canons as the theory to decode the content of the aesthetic characteristics of the Gao Gu You Si Stroke (one of the Eighteen Strokes), then to get the visual cultural characteristics of Chinese painting strokes and the fundamental perspective characteristics of the inheritance visual cultural. Based on this, this article will use the Content Analysis Approach to conduct research, by decoding the aesthetic content of the Chinese painting strokes to construct the personality and characteristics required by Chinese visual design.
Highlights
Chinese painting has a long history, and strokes are the primary expression technique
Currently studies the Eighteen Strokes mostly focusing on its development history and representative painters, there is no clear and complete discussion on the content of visual characteristics, such as the Eighteen Strokes of Chinese painting, Lines of Chinese figure painting, and so on
As one of the oldest strokes in the Eighteen Strokes, the Gao Gu You Si Stroke has great reference value for its historical value and far-reaching influence, it can be used as a template for learning and inheriting Chinese painting strokes[3][4][5].To make the content of the visual characteristics of Chinese painting strokes clearer and intuitive, so need to decode visual content
Summary
Chinese painting has a long history, and strokes are the primary expression technique. Currently studies the Eighteen Strokes mostly focusing on its development history and representative painters, there is no clear and complete discussion on the content of visual characteristics, such as the Eighteen Strokes of Chinese painting, Lines of Chinese figure painting, and so on. The Six Canons first appeared in the Southern Qi Dynasty Xie He's book They are six painting theories summarized by painter Xie He based on traditional painting practice: 1)Spirit Resonance, which means vitality; 2)Structure means using the brush; 3)By the object, draw its form; 4)According to nature, lay on the colors; 5)Division and planning mean composition; 6) Imitating and learning from the masterpieces of predecessors[7][8]. After analyzing the relationship between the Six Canons and Chinese painting strokes, the content indicators of visual characteristics that need to be inherited are obtained[9]. By constructing the relationship between the indicators, clarify the content of the characteristics of the Chinese visual design required
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