Essay | topics
How Flower-and-Bird painting becomes a significant category in Chinese Painting
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Today Flower-and-Bird paintings
Part 2
Further developed | deliverables of the final project
The expression and poetic meaning within the flower and bird painting is such a good value to today’s busy city. While we are lack of having the time with nature that far different from the ancient Chinese life, so, here design a hotel concept based on flower and bird paintings as the theme of a whole, named in Nest Hotel.
Design a series of modern flower and bird paintings as posters divided into 6 main categories of bird and color identity with specific hotel branding.
Part 1 | Essay
Within the course of Chinese painting, there are main three subjects that have been landscapes, flowers-and-birds and figures. Here going to talk about how flower and bird painting develop to the signify subject in Chinese painting, the view of its influence and social status within the whole Chinese history and finally will be about flower and bird painting in today.
As Flowers-and-birds were popular categories in paintings in ancient China even until today’s contemporary art, where it is offering kind of unique aesthetic interest. The name of flowers-and-birds overs ‘flowers, birds, fish and insects’ (花鳥魚蟲 ; huā, niǎo, yú, chóng), with its board term used in a wide range of natural topics which actually including flowers, bamboo, trees(plant), fruit, animal, insects, fish, pets and etc.
Before being an independent school of paintings, flower-and-birds is developed rather late than others subjects paintings (figure and landscapes), which originated in Tang Dynasty and raised its maturity at the end of the Tang and Five Dynasties period. The flow of such genre painting initially regarding as ornamental pattern for daily objects, then become symbolic, metaphoric and allegorical elements in the background of figure or landscape paintings and finally