Freehand drawing is a method of painting opposite Gongbi painting. It requires an extensive and concise pen and ink to draw the shape of the object to express the author's artistic conception. It was rumored that during the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong ordered painter Li Sixun and Wu Daozi to depict the landscapes of the Jialing River in Datong Hall. Li Sixun is good at the heavy brushwork. He spent a few months to complete the mural. Wu Daizi painted more than 30,000 miles of Jialing landscape within a day. This can be imagined that he cannot draw with the technique of heavy brushwork. It must be more exquisite and concise. This shows that the painting at that time was different from gongbi and freehand. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi proposed "scholars' paintings", advocating painting "not seeking shape", but should write emotions to express the author's subjective ideological feelings. He left only one painting "dead wood", drawing a dead tree, a piece of stubborn stone, one or two branches of bamboo in the back of the stone, and a few fine grass under the tree. This painting expresses his political feelings that are unwilling to be politically, but the big calligrapher gives a very high evaluation, saying that the branches are "bending", and the stone "is also weird and strange, like the depression in his chest." After the Yuan Dynasty, the strokes were concise, vivid, hearty, and interesting. This, freehand paintings have formed two major factions with different styles that follow the tradition and adhere to the rules.
Freehand drawing is a method of painting opposite Gongbi painting. It requires an extensive and concise pen and ink to draw the shape of the object to express the author's artistic conception. It was rumored that during the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong ordered painter Li Sixun and Wu Daozi to depict the landscapes of the Jialing River in Datong Hall. Li Sixun is good at the heavy brushwork. He spent a few months to complete the mural. Wu Daizi painted more than 30,000 miles of Jialing landscape within a day. This can be imagined that he cannot draw with the technique of heavy brushwork. It must be more exquisite and concise. This shows that the painting at that time was different from gongbi and freehand. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi proposed "scholars' paintings", advocating painting "not seeking shape", but should write emotions to express the author's subjective ideological feelings. He left only one painting "dead wood", drawing a dead tree, a piece of stubborn stone, one or two branches of bamboo in the back of the stone, and a few fine grass under the tree. This painting expresses his political feelings that are unwilling to be politically, but the big calligrapher gives a very high evaluation, saying that the branches are "bending", and the stone "is also weird and strange, like the depression in his chest." After the Yuan Dynasty, the strokes were concise, vivid, hearty, and interesting.
This, freehand paintings have formed two major factions with different styles that follow the tradition and adhere to the rules.