Xueting Zhang

Xueting Zhang

26 May 2023

Contemporary new meticulous flower and bird painting, Tradition, Characteristic.

The development of Chinese meticulous flower and bird painting has a long history of 2,000 years, including the emergence of flower and bird images with a history of nearly 4,000 years. In the first half of the 20th century, new trends of thought crashed traditional Chinese painting, marking the beginning of the modern process of meticulous flower and bird painting. In the 1950s and 1960s, meticulous flower and bird painting began to undergo innovations in content, form, and techniques. Since the 1980s, with the reform and opening up, social development, and the impact of various artistic trends such as the 85 New Wave, painters' horizons and mentality have begun to change. Entering the 21st century, meticulous flower and bird painting has gradually transitioned from revival to prosperity, with a large number of works with distinct personality characteristics emerging. These works have broken through the previous characteristics of single and similar artistic styles, as well as the limitations of painting tools and materials, breaking free of various existing aesthetic stereotypes in Chinese painting.

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