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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 232 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018) Study on the Construction Techniques of Virtual Environment in Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting Bing Hao Henan University Minsheng College Kaifeng, China 475000 Abstract—The construction of virtual environment is an landscape painting in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. At this time, important technique in Chinese traditional landscape painting. It the beauty of the virtual environment in landscape painting has is a profound embodiment of traditional Chinese literati's not been fully revealed. Luoshen Fu Painting is one of the philosophy of nature. It developed from analogy of the landscape representative works of Dunhuang cultural paintings. In this painting to doctrine in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the virtual picture, the landscape is still centered on the characters and the environment of landscape painting close to nature in the Tang plot is the way of expression. In the picture, the spatial Dynasty, to the realistic environment of painting in the Two Song structure is described on the basis of pattern sketch, and the Dynasties, which all reflect the mature and development of construction of virtual environment is not reflected. The mainstream humanistic thought and creation techniques of expression of space and spirit is still a way of expressing the landscape painting in each period. The thesis mainly analyzes the pattern. However, this style of painting lays a foundation for creating techniques of virtual environment in traditional Chinese landscape painting, and expounds the creation of the virtual the development of the techniques of virtual-environment environment of the realistic-environment landscape painting in construction in the future landscape painting. From the study the Five Dynasties and the Two Song Dynasties. of Chinese traditional Chinese painting, it was found that in the period of the Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty, with the Keywords—traditional Chinese painting; landscape painting; continuous development of the aesthetic thought, Wang Wei construction of virtual environment had developed a new technique for the creative techniques of landscape painting, which became an independent landscape I. INTRODUCTION painting method. The construction of the virtual environment is a commonly A. Related Techniques and Comparative Study of Early used technique in Chinese landscape painting. It is an Scenery Matching expressive form of the natural representation of the heavens and the earth under the influence of metaphysics and Taosim This thesis takes Gu Kaizhi's Painting Yuntai Mountain as of the ancient Chinese ancestors. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the object of study. First, in the background composition, the the dynasty changed frequently as a result of the war. The whole picture is taken with three sections of the composition metaphysics is popular. The celebrities began to love in the method from right to left. From the slight mask of the part of landscape, pursuing the natural integration with the Taoism. It the picture to the hide and reveal of the scene, it used the plays an important role in promoting the development of appropriate composition technique. For example, it used landscape literature. Since Jin Dynasty, traditional Chinese scenery isolation and scenery shield to express space painting has been influenced by the landscape culture under relationship, used springs, streams and ravine to clear space metaphysics. Landscape painting began to appear in the bud. levels. At same time, it also used the hide and reveal method to The development of landscape painting is based on the sketch the dark or light relationship, as “one man hid behind a humanistic spirit and mainstream values of the time. It is a rock on the west with his clothing corner left outside, it is reflection of Chinese humanistic philosophy. The creation of known a man behind the rock. The spatial relationship is quite false alarms in landscape paintings also reflects the humanistic delicate”. At same time, it also used the distance of mountain value of the era. It is of great significance to reflect the cultural to express the special distance. Secondly, in the modeling of value of contemporary landscape painting creation. the picture, the Yin and Yang expression technique is used to express volume. For instance, used the mutual superposition method to describe the volume of mountain rock, meanwhile, II. THE EARLY EXPRESSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF it also plays the role of space extension. For the pursuit of VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT "posture", use the modeling method to outline and the dynamic The early landscape painting is a concrete image of and static relationship to set off by contrast. It not only makes landscape literature. In the painting, the landscape painting it reveal but also gives people endless imagination. Thirdly, in appears mostly as the background. In order to set off the sage- color setting, express changes by arranging color of scenery like type of character, this is the initial expression of the and highlight space with dark and light background in addition Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 212 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 232 to the shaping of overall reality, so that it is clearer in the sense scenery. In distant description, it uses a descending-order of depth. For example, highlight the changes of space by the painting technique. From the modeling, it is close to nature. changes of dark and light colors. “A mountain has both light The deficiency is that the distant sketch of scenery is not and shadow sides, auspicious clouds could be arranged enough in expressive force, but it does not affect the overall floating from the east [1].” In addition, the fusion of colors can spatial perception. be used to show the space in the distance. At the same time, a fuzzy method is used to reduce the brightness of the whole III. THE CONSTRUCTION OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT IN color to express the empty and far distance of the distant scene. THE REALISTIC-ENVIRONMENT PAINTING IN THE FIVE Through the main description of the background of the early DYNASTIES AND TWO SONG DYNASTIES mountains and rivers, it is found that the painting is expressed only from the composition, modeling and color setting. The A. Overview of the Techniques of "Realistic-environment" techniques for creating the virtual landscape are not Landscape Painting systematically expounded, which also shows some characteristics of the related techniques for the early landscape From the analysis of its causes, "realistic-environment" and scene matching. landscape painting has been popular since the Two Song Dynasties. It is mainly because painters of Tang Dynasty had a B. Related Techniques in the Early Independent Landscape new understanding of the aesthetic feeling of landscape Painting painting. First, Father and son of Li family made a corresponding improvement on the creative techniques of the The appearance of the landscape painting school is red and green landscape painting, and changed the form of produced by the formal cognition of the aesthetic system of landscape painting, breaking the past restriction of landscape painting. Zong Bing and Wang Wei can be said to metaphysics form in the landscape painting. They began to use be the ancestors of the landscape painting school. They have the form of ink and water to express the landscape painting. made a preliminary study of their theory and related techniques. Secondly, in the inheritance of landscape painting, ink and They have completely divided the landscape painting with the water landscape painting was a new thing, so the predecessors function of the original landmark guidance, and became a kind had no systematic experience to learn from. There were only of pure landscape painting school. When it came to Xiao Ben some creative techniques, so they put forward "there is no of Southern Liang Dynasty, his artistic conception presented fixed skill in painting, likeness is skill; there is no fixed teacher the form of remote space. It can be said that Xiao Ben was the for learning, truth is teacher.” It means though we have no first painter in the perspective sketch of the distant and near landscape painting techniques for inheritance, we can take landscape. In the present knowledge of physics, reference nature as teacher and we can paint on the self understanding of substance is expressed in paintings. water and mountain. In addition, poetry has developed rapidly As for the theoretical techniques of early landscape in the Tang Dynasty. In the green and red landscape painting, painting, the artistic conception of landscape painting has been painters preferred to quote poetry. They developed an ability developed into an independent school of painting in the period of expressing the special distant artistic conception in the scroll of the Southern Dynasty's Liu Song period. Zong Bing used from integrating this special artistic conception into the the natural viewing of distant reflection to express the size in landscape scenery. As the saying goes “there is painting in a the picture. In technique, he used shape to paint shape and poem and poem in a painting”. It can be said that the color to shape appearance, which is a creative technique attainments of Chinese ink painting in the Tang Dynasty have showing a long distance in a small scroll in a nature way. Xiao laid a solid foundation for the two Song Dynasties, in Ze's Stream, Mountains and Pavilions have presented the techniques, understanding and related theories. In the two beginning of concreting painting theory and law. In the use of Song Dynasties, it was improved on the basis of drawing on techniques, it is more intensive in structure, color setting and the attainments of the landscape painting of the Tang Dynasty, inking than those of the early Southern Dynasties.
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