Guhua compositional overview

Lee Fugui

The composition of Gohua has certain national characteristics that have been formed over millennia. In the process of developing and synthesizing the culture of China with many other cultures, a special form of composition has formed in guhua. The principles on which the composition in guhua is based: main and secondary, illusion and reality, disclosure and completion, sparseness and density, empty space, balance, intersecting, interwoven and overlapping contrast, calligraphic inscription, harmony.

Keywords:Chinese painting, composition, principle.