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Chinese Calligraphy Painting

Usually Chinese calligraphy painting refers to the works of Chinese calligraphy. But someone might regard Chinese calligraphy painting as the Chinese painting with calligraphic inscription. And a lot of people don't know why Chinese painters always write inscription on painting.(be endorsed/signed.)

Generally speaking, the inscription(Signed with Calligraphy and sealed) is obbligato/important for Chinese painting. It is equal to the signature of western painter, indicating the artist of the painting. The Chinese inscription calligraphy can be a topic, a few words of one's own, or a poem, a piece of prose.

Inscription can also play the role in bringing out the theme. Sometimes, when people appreciate one landscape painting or flower-bird painting, it might difficult to discern the artist's idea. Through inscription, it is easier for people to seize the painter's intent.


For a traditional Chinese painting, it seems more complete and more distinctive when it combine with poetry, calligraphy and seal. This combination not only enrich content of painting, but also intensify painting's artistic conception, giving people more aesthetic pleasure. And that is another characteristic of Chinese painting.

In the integrate process of these four forms of art, the combiantion of calligraphy and painting is much older than the remainning two. The reason is the similar tools and operation for Chinese calligraphy and painting.

The combination of calligraphy and painting contains two meanings. First, this two art forms are said to have the same origin. If the painter was skilled in calligraphy, or was a calligrapher as well, he will borrow the skills or the art of composition of calligraphy consciously or unconsciously when he drawing. Second, adding calligraphic inscription on painting. Thus, Chinese painting is blended with Chinese calligraphy, and it become the essential part of traditional painting, forming another formal beauty of Chinese painting.

Before Song dynasty, the inscription on painting is rare. Occasionally, few character only can be found in inconspicuous corner of painting. That is the small signature of painter. At that time, although some painter also inscribe poetry, it is not inscribed on painting. In Song dynasty, some painters as well as poet and calligrapher begin to inscribe one poem or one preface on their paintings. In this way, peotry, calligraphy and painting start on intergration. In Yuan dynasty, along with the development of literati (or scholar) painting, seal also joint them. So the four are inseparable as body and shadow. And this combination is widely used by painters of the day. Then it becoming better and approaching perfection day by day in Ming and Qing dynasties.



The traditional Chinese painting require the painter is of lettered and all-round. Thus, a good painter not only have to master painting, but also need to know literature, aesthetics, even philosophy and other things about natural science. In a word, only if painter try to achieve the rounded level he can create the high-level Chinese painting.

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