Hua-niao painting

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Hua-niao painting (Traditional Chinese: 花鳥畫, Simplified Chinese: 花鸟画), or Hua-niao, in Chinese literarily means "Painting of Bird and Flower", or just simply "Bird-Flower Painting" or "Bird-Flower", is a kind of Chinese painting named after its painting topic. Normally, most of the Hua-niao belongs to the kind of scholar-artist style of Chinese painting.

[edit] Painting topics

According the Chinese tradition, it's "Hua, Niao, Yu, Chong" (literarily "flower, bird, fish, insect", Traditional Chinese:花鳥魚蟲, Simplified Chinese:花鸟鱼虫)

Flowers (plants), fish, insects, birds, pets (dog, cat) etc

[edit] Varieties

According to its different painting techniques:

• Ink and Wash Painting (水墨花鸟画/水墨花鸟画)

Representatives: Lin Liang(:zh:林良|林良), Qi Baishi (齐白石), Zhang Daqian (张大千)

• Fine-brush (工笔花鸟/工笔花鸟画)
  • Fine-brush with Ink and Wash Painting (工笔水墨/兼工带水墨)

Representatives: Lin Liang (林良), Ren Yi (任颐), Zhang Daqian (张大千)

• • Fine-brush with Colour (工彩)
    • Fine-brush with Heavy Colour (工笔重彩)
    • Fine-brush with Light Colour (工笔淡彩)

Representatives: Emperor Huizong (赵佶), Lv Ji (吕纪), Lin Liang (林良), Zhang Daqian (张大千)

• Enjoyable Style (写意花鸟/写意花鸟画)
  • Great Enjoyable Style (大写意)
  • Slight Enjoyable Style (小写意)

Representatives: Tang Yin (唐寅), Xu Wei (徐渭), Wu Changshuo (吴昌硕), Ren Yi (任颐), Zhang Daqian (张大千)

• Fine-brush with Enjoyable Style (兼工带写)

Representatives: Lin Liang (林良), Tang Yin (唐寅), Zhang Daqian (张大千)