摘要
Gongbi painting is a tra-ditional Chinese real-istic style of paintingcharacterized by fine brush-work and close attention todetail.It has a long history,asit flourished and dominatedChinese painting circles be-fore the Yuan Dynasty(1271-1368)and was called“superb art.″Characteristics of the gong-bi style are seen in the totemsthat appeared in matriarchalsociety 40,000 years ago;indesigns of fish and insects oncolored pottery in the NewStone Age 5,000 years ago;in pictures depicting war andhunting scenes on bronzeware4,000 years ago;in silk paint-ings of the late Zhou Dynasty(11th century to 221 B.C.),
