Six principles of Chinese painting - wikipedia Six principles of Chinese painting This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2016 ) The Six principles of Chinese painting were established by Xie He in `` Six points to consider when judging a painting '' ( 繪畫 六法, Pinyin : Huìhuà Liùfǎ ) from the preface to his book `` The Record of the Classification of Old Painters '' ( 古 畫 品 錄 ; Pinyin : Gǔhuà Pǐnlù ) written circa 550 and refers to `` old '' and `` ancient '' practices. The six elements that define a painting are : `` Spirit Resonance, '' or vitality, and seems to translate to the nervous energy transmitted from the artist into the work. The overall energy of a work of art. Xie He said that without Spirit Resonance, there was no need to look further. `` Bone Method, '' or the way of using the brush. This refers not only to texture and brush stroke, but to the close link between handwriting and personality. In his day, the art of calligraphy was inseparable from painting. `` Correspondence to the Object, '' or the depicting of form, which would include shape and line. `` Suitability to Type, '' or the application of color, including layers, value and tone. `` Division and Planning, '' or placing and arrangement, corresponding to composition, space and depth. `` Transmission by Copying, '' or the copying of models, not only from life but also the works of antiquity. These have been translated over the years by a succession of sinologists with very varying translations. `` The problem lies, of course, in the terseness of the original Chinese, where each principle is stated in but four characters... Each period of Chinese painting has its own special way of interpreting the six principles... their application is fluid, varying according to period and artist ''. References Jump up ^ Fritz van Briessen, The Way of the Brush : Painting Techniques of China and Japan. Rutland, Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962, pp. 111 - 112. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Six_principles_of_Chinese_painting&oldid=773587177 '' Categories : Chinese painting Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from December 2016 All articles needing additional references Talk About Wikipedia Español 日本 語 Русский 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 3 April 2017, at 09 : 14. About Wikipedia

Question: who established the six principles of chinese painting
Answer: Xie He