How to appreciate the beauty of bonsai

Everyone knows that a good bonsai looks good, but how to enjoy it? Bonsai as a work of art, how to appreciate, is not a simple matter. It requires the viewer to have a certain ideological level, cultural and artistic accomplishment and life experience. As the saying goes: the layman watches the hustle and bustle, the expert watches the way. Of course, the level of artistic accomplishment is relative, to improve artistic accomplishment, we need to constantly accumulate aesthetic experience, but also through practical training. Appreciating bonsai is actually the aesthetic appreciation of bonsai. The beauty of bonsai is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. Natural beauty

Bonsai is mainly made of natural trees and rocks, in which plants have the characteristics of life, so natural beauty is an important aspect of bonsai beauty.

The natural beauty of trees includes the beauty of roots, trunks, branches and leaves, flowers and fruits and the overall posture, as well as the beauty of colors that change with the seasons.

Root:

The slightly exposed soil surface of the roots of the trees gives people a sense of solidity; there are those whose roots are exposed to the soil, there are dragons and tigers entrenched in the ground; several roots are linked together and become connected; and some are rooted in stone crevices, with the mood that they will never relax after biting the green hills. Therefore, in the bonsai, there are root-lifting, root-connecting and stone-attached art forms with the root as the main appreciation object.

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Although the trunk of the tree has been artistically processed, it still has natural tree potential and charm. Such as straight, vigorous and straight, qu Gancang ancient colorful, each has its own characteristics. Dry skin is old and tender, some rough, some smooth, such as black pine dry skin covered with scales, while bamboo plants are smooth and interesting. There are also many colors of tree trunks, including black, beige, yellowish brown, emerald green, purple and black, and so on. In addition, some semi-decaying tree trunks, in contrast to thriving branches and leaves, can give people a sense of dead wood and spring.

Leaf:

The shape of leaves varies from tree species to tree species. There are needle shape, scale shape, egg shape, fan shape, palm shape, melon seed shape, and strange leaf shape. The texture of the leaves is hard and soft, thick and thin, leathery and paper. The colors of the leaves are rich and varied, including dark green, light green, yellowish green, red, edge, flowers and leaves, and so on.

Flowers and fruits:

The shape and color of flowers are the most varied. In the bonsai of flowers and trees, there are rhododendron, broom, pomegranate flower, plum blossom and so on. There are also many forms of bonsai, such as fire thorn fruit, Tongfei fruit, Elaeagnus angustifolia, bergamot fruit. The color of the fruit is also very rich, including golden yellow, red, fuchsia, yellowish green and so on.

Second, overall beauty

The shape and color of the roots, stems, branches and leaves, flowers and fruits of the bonsai are organically combined to form the overall beauty of the tree landscape.

(1) the beauty of seasonal changes. The shape and color of bonsai plants change with the changes of the four seasons. Such as new buds in spring, luxuriant branches and leaves in summer, fruits in autumn, and vigorous branches in winter. As the tree grows older, the tree will gradually show a kind of antique posture. It is of great interest to watch the growth of trees and the changes of the four seasons.

(2) the natural beauty of mountains and rocks. The natural beauty of rocks mainly refers to the texture, shape and color of rocks.

Texture: rocks can be divided into hard and loose rocks, such as Yingde stone, tree stone, sand stone, seaweed stone and pumice.

Shape: the natural shape of rocks includes shape and texturing patterns. In terms of appearance, there are peaks, such as axe-splitting stone, layered, such as thousand-layer stone, round, such as pebbles, and rugged, such as Yingde stone. As far as the texturing pattern is concerned, there are axe chopping, such as axe chopping stone, disorderly firewood, such as Reed stone, folded band, such as thousand-layer stone, and textured interlaced, such as Yingde stone.

Color: most of the stalagmite is bluish gray, most of the tree fossils are yellowish brown, the axe split stone is dark gray, and the Xuan stone is mostly pure white. In the performance of bonsai, each has his own strengths. For example, stalagmite is used to represent Spring Mountain and Xuan Stone is used to represent Winter Mountain.

Third, the beauty of the painting.

Although the modeling of Chinese bonsai is based on natural landscapes and trees, it does not mechanically imitate specific plants and trees, but highly generalizes and refines the landscape and tree scenery of nature, and carries out artistic processing to make it a diverse and unified layout with primary and secondary, foil, gathering and dispersion, density, contrast and echo, so as to achieve the artistic realm of cohesion of natural scenery. The beauty produced by this kind of natural scenery after artistic processing is the beauty of painting.

The beauty of painting scene is an important aspect of the beauty of bonsai. It is one of the criteria to evaluate the plastic art of bonsai. The beauty of bonsai painting can be shown through different styles. Chinese bonsai has a variety of styles and styles. Mastering these aesthetic knowledge is helpful to appreciate the beauty of bonsai painting.

In order to express the beauty of painting, we must use various artistic techniques, such as distinguishing between primary and secondary, proper density, deficiency and reality, skillful and clumsy interuse, strange in plain, hidden in dew, and so on. It should also be realized through certain technical techniques, such as tree cultivation, pruning, flat modeling, rock carving, layout, splicing and so on. Therefore, in order to further understand the beauty of bonsai painting, it is best to have some understanding of the relevant artistic and technical techniques.

IV. Beauty of artistic conception

As a kind of work of art, bonsai should not only have the beauty of painting, but also be able to show far-reaching artistic conception, that is, to make people not only see the scene, but also stimulate the emotion, will and ideal of beauty through the scene, so as to produce rich associations and accept the feelings outside the scene, so as to achieve the endless meaning of the scene.

The beauty of artistic conception has a strong appeal to people. It makes bonsai works intriguing and has the charm of never getting tired of seeing. Because the authors of bonsai have melted their feelings into the construction of bonsai in the process of creation, when the viewer enters this beautiful emotion, will and ideal artistic conception, they can achieve ideological and emotional resonance with the bonsai author.

Artistic conception is the highest state of bonsai art. It is based on the context of painting, the two infiltrate each other, it is difficult to separate. The artistic conception is sometimes expressed with the help of the inscription of bonsai, so it is necessary to have some literary accomplishment to appreciate bonsai.

In the creation of bonsai, the most difficult to express is the beauty of artistic conception, and in the appreciation of bonsai, what needs the aesthetic level most is the beauty of artistic conception. Take a pot of pine bonsai as an example. When we see its new leaves and old stems, we only appreciate its natural beauty. And when we see its tall and straight trunk, vigorous branches and leaves, we appreciate the beauty of its painting. That is, by the pine tree vigorous and upright posture, think of its fearless storm, unyielding character, thus inspired by the spirit, then appreciate the beauty of its artistic conception. In particular, the flood and drought bonsai is rich in content and diverse scenery, which can better reflect its poetic artistic conception beauty. The association of bonsai works in bonsai varies from person to person, with some subjective elements, which is determined by the appreciator's ideological level, artistic accomplishment, life experience and other factors. The depth of the artistic conception of bonsai does not depend entirely on the number of scenery or the size of the scene. Sometimes, in the bonsai where the scenery is very simple and the scene is very small, it can also show a profound artistic conception. Such as a basin of flood and drought bonsai, several grottoes grow on the sand stones, placed in the water basin, and then dotted with a few ducklings accessories, can make the viewer think of the famous sentence that the warm ducks in the river are the first to feel the smell of spring, thus making people feel the coming of spring and the strong flavor of life.