Bird-and-flower painting
Photograph by MagicToDooron Flickr.
Normally, most bird-and-flower paintings belong to the scholar-artist style of Chinese painting.
According to Chinese tradition, bird-and-flower painting covers flowers,
Bird-and-flower painting birds, fish, and insects (Traditional Chinese: 花鳥魚蟲, Simplified Chinese: 花鸟鱼虫 huā, niǎo, yú, chóng). It can thus deal with
painting a wide range of natural topics, including flowers (plants), fish, Bird-and-flower painting insects, birds, pets (dogs, cats) etc.
According to painting technique:
Representatives: Lin Liang (林良), Tang Yin (唐寅), Zhang Daqian (张大千)
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Bird-and-flower painting is a kind of Chinese
Trompe-lœil painting named after its subject matter.
