The name of Mogu first appeared in a book by Guo Ruo Xu in Song Dynasty (960 A.D.-1127 A.D.).
Instead of using ink lines, Mogu Painting uses colors or colored lines and color gradation to create a painting.
Mogu Painting was created by Zhang Zengyao during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 A.D.-589 A.D.).
In the Five Dynasties period (907 A.D.-960 A.D.), Huang Quan significantly developed it to paint trees and flowers.
In Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.-907 A.D.), Yang Sheng mastered and developed it.
In Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.), Xu Wei further developed it and started applying this technique in Landscape Paintings.
In Qing Dynasty (1616 A.D-1911 A.D.), Yun Shouping (Yun Nantian) made it famous and Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo developed it further.
Mogu Painting has only been a small stream in Chinese painting history since it was created, so there have not been many famous Mogu Paintings passed down.
I started to learn Mogu Painting in China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
According to my instructor:
—Chinese Mogu Painting is a painting style that uses the methods of Chinese Xieyi, to achieve the results of Chinese Gongbi Painting. Therefore, it is somewhere between Chinese Gongbi and Chinese Xieyi.
—“Mogu”in Chinese means“there is no skeleton”. Since ink lines are the bones of Chinese painting, if there is no bone, then it means artists do not paint Mogu Painting with ink lines, but create a painting directly with colors or colored lines.
—Instead of using Chinese ink, Chinese Mogu Painting uses the colors directly.
Here are some of my Chinese Mogu paintings that also my assignements in Chinese National Academy of Arts and China Central Academy of Fine Arts and hope you enjoy them and be some help with you to learn Chinese art and culture:
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Sequence:
Time Content Love, Kinship and Friendship
关雎 — Singing Ospreys
七步诗 — The Quatrain of Seven Steps
寄扬州韩绰判官 — Send to the Official Han Chuo in Yang Zhou
夜雨寄北 —Send a Poem Letter to Someone in the North on a Rainy Night
Landscape
敕勒歌 — Chi Le Song
一望二三里 — Have A Look Over, Two, Three Miles
柏林寺南望 — Look Over the South From the Bailin Temple
江雪 — Fishing on a Snowy River
Philosophy
赋新月 — Ode to the New Moon
Travel and Farewell
赠汪伦 — Present the Poem to Wang Lun
静夜思 — Missing my Hometown in the Peaceful Night
绝句(江碧鸟逾白) — On the Blue River, Birds Seem More White
Song of the Spring
晚春 — Late Spring
Encouragement
庭竹 — The Bamboo in the Courtyard
梅花 — Plum Blossoms
Appendix
My Endless Gratitude -Feb,2017 in the USA
The Appendix ( Nov 16, 2017 in China) of My Endless Gratitude -Feb,2017 in the USA
Chinese Mogu Painting
Chinese Mogu Painting
Mogu is also called Boneless Painting, in other words, it is a kingd of paintings without the outline of lines with Chinese ink, but with forms achieved by washes of ink and color.The name of Mogu first appeared in a book by Guo Ruo Xu in Song Dynasty (960 A.D.-1127 A.D.).
Instead of using ink lines, Mogu Painting uses colors or colored lines and color gradation to create a painting.
Mogu Painting was created by Zhang Zengyao during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 A.D.-589 A.D.).
In the Five Dynasties period (907 A.D.-960 A.D.), Huang Quan significantly developed it to paint trees and flowers.
In Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.-907 A.D.), Yang Sheng mastered and developed it.
In Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.), Xu Wei further developed it and started applying this technique in Landscape Paintings.
In Qing Dynasty (1616 A.D-1911 A.D.), Yun Shouping (Yun Nantian) made it famous and Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo developed it further.
Mogu Painting has only been a small stream in Chinese painting history since it was created, so there have not been many famous Mogu Paintings passed down.
I started to learn Mogu Painting in China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
According to my instructor:
—Chinese Mogu Painting is a painting style that uses the methods of Chinese Xieyi, to achieve the results of Chinese Gongbi Painting. Therefore, it is somewhere between Chinese Gongbi and Chinese Xieyi.
—“Mogu”in Chinese means“there is no skeleton”. Since ink lines are the bones of Chinese painting, if there is no bone, then it means artists do not paint Mogu Painting with ink lines, but create a painting directly with colors or colored lines.
—Instead of using Chinese ink, Chinese Mogu Painting uses the colors directly.
Here are some of my Chinese Mogu paintings that also my assignements in Chinese National Academy of Arts and China Central Academy of Fine Arts and hope you enjoy them and be some help with you to learn Chinese art and culture: