Traditional Chinese Scroll Painting
There is no other branch of drawing by painters in china that can give chinese people more emotion than chinese ink and brush paintings of landscape especially like mountain river rock valley landscape painting or traditional chinese scroll.
Traditional chinese scroll painting. We can closely appreciate chinese brush painting s artistic conception artistic style spirit or mood and tone from chinese landscape drawings. A predominant format of chinese painting is the handscroll a continuous roll of paper or silk of varying length on which an image has been painted and which when not being viewed remains rolled up. It is to be distinguished from the handscroll which was narrower and designed to be viewed flat on a table in sections and then stored away again. Hand scrolls traditional to china and japan are ink paintings on continuous lengths of paper or silk.
There are two types of scroll. A hanging scroll is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit east asian painting and calligraphy. Hanging scrolls are generally intended to be displayed for short periods of time and are then rolled up to be tied and secured for storage. They are unrolled at arm s length and viewed from right to left.
The hanging scroll was displayed in a room for appreciation. These generally represent panoramic views of rivers mountain and urban landscapes and domestic interiors.