Traditional Elements and Chromatic Techniques in Chinese Painting: Inheritance, Innovation, and Cultural Significance
List of Authors
Hui Wang, Mumtaz Mokhtar
Keyword
Chinese Painting, Traditional Elements, Chromatic Techniques, Cultural Heritage, Artistic Innovation
Abstract
This research examines the function of traditional elements and chromatic methods in Chinese painting, specifically focusing on how their inheritance, innovation, and cultural value are understood by artists, historians, and scholars. It seeks to analyze how the practices preserve cultural identity and at the same time adjust to prevailing artistic condition. The research design used was qualitative and interpretive, and used semi-structured interviews with 13 respondents in the form of traditional painters, contemporary artists, art historians, and culture scholars. The experts were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling techniques, and data were analyzed in the format of the thematic analysis approach created by Braun and Clarke, which allowed identifying and interpreting the themes systematically. The information generated five broad themes: transmission of the traditional practices by the lineage and apprenticeship, chromatic symbolism as the cultural code, the innovation of modern and Western techniques as the means of expression of cultural identity and transmission of heritage, the threats and opportunities of commercialization and globalization. These observations testify to the power and plasticity of Chinese traditions of painting as works of art and as cultural discourse. It introduces novelty in the sense that the practitioners are at the center of the research and offers consequences on the education of art, cultural policymaking and cross-cultural contact to keep on preserving the Chinese painting as living heritage.