Chinese Brush Paintings – The Gongbi Paintings

Chinese Brush Paintings - Chinese GongBi paintings have endured anabrasive 2000 year history. The GongBi style had its beginningsapproximately 2000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD)when Han's political stability and its prosperity favored the advancement of the arts.

Chinese GongBi paintings peaked out between the Tang and Song Dynasties (618 AD - 1279 AD) where these paintings were endorsed and collected by the Royal families of China.

Chinese GongBi Paintings – For Royalty Only

The GongBi artists to perfect this style must totally commit themselves to the GongBi techniques. Only the wealthy could afford GongBi artists.

This style of art was accomplished in secret in royal palaces and private homes.

Chinese GongBi paintings expired during a 700 year period of political and economic unrest of the Song Dynasty.

For this length of time, the government was hostile to the GongBi artists.

However, many of the GongBi paintings were saved from the Song Dynasty during this tormented 700 year period.

Chinese Brush Paintings - The Modern China

GongBi paintings became available to all through national art museums and public education due largely to a progressive modern Chinese government.

Traditionally, GongBi paintings feature extravagant and detailed flowers and birds. These intricate drawings of flowers and birds demand total concentration and the greatest of artistic ability.

Thus, you arrive at a beautiful GongBi painting.

Chinese GongBi Paintings - The Difficult Art

For itself of Chinese painting, it is an extremely difficult art. Present skill of Chinese painting can be exactly summarized with two words "brush and ink".

"Brush and ink" in Chinese painting is just the most significant means to form abstract present of Chinese Painting.

Two words of "brush and ink" should have three explanations nowadays.

The first one is the names of tool materials of Chinese painting (ink-wash painting), which just refers to the brush and the ink.

The second one is it is the general name of traditional present skill of Chinese painting (using brush and ink).

The third one is it not only refers to accumulated experience and traditional essence, but also includes a variety of present skills developed, enriched and innovated based on traditional skills of using brush and ink.

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