Landscape bonsai come in a myriad of forms, with the world's finest scenery distilled into a single pot
Landscape bonsai is a group of scenery created by mountains, rocks, grass and trees arranged and combined in a pot, and this combination follows a certain pattern of mountain momentum or structural composition. Below, let us appreciate some of the more representative landscape bonsai works of Shanshui Renjia, in the hope of better exchange with the broad community of bonsai enthusiasts.
Autumn Thoughts
The artistic conception the author wants to express has already taken shape in the mind; the next task is to find the trees, mountains, rocks, grass and other materials suitable for expressing this conception, and to complete this idea through the combination of materials - conceive first, then create.
Boating on a Calm Lake
A certain artistic conception arises from the shape and characteristics of specific mountains, grass, trees and rocks. Because the making of landscape bonsai is limited by the requirements of specific materials, this method of conception is the main way of thinking in landscape bonsai creation.
Autumn Charm of Mount Yi
A myriad of forms come together naturally, the world's finest scenery distilled in a pot——dedicated to landscape bonsai. Landscape bonsai is a type of bonsai that focuses on the appreciation of rocks. It condenses natural landscapes such as fantastic peaks and strange ridges, high gorges with flying cascades, a hundred ranges and a thousand peaks, and secluded caves with wondrous scenery into a shallow water basin, just like a three-dimensional landscape painting, making people feel as if they were before blue waves and green waters, among famous mountains and great rivers, full of lively charm.
Gazing at Mount Tai
Landscape bonsai is made by bonsai artisans who take stones suitable for shaping and, according to the natural qualities of the mountain stones such as form, texture, color and substance, carve and sculpt them into natural forms such as layered cliffs and repeated ridges, towering perilous peaks, deep streams and cave gullies, and craggy mountain paths.
Picture of Enjoying the Scenery
“A single peak contains a thousand fathoms of Mount Hua, a single spoon holds ten thousand miles of rivers and lakes.” The bonsai maker's artistic technique of moving heaven and shrinking earth, and revealing the great from the small, takes mountains as the main subject for shaping and layout. From the several pictures collected here, one can see that they have successfully condensed the majestic and magnificent beautiful rivers and mountains, the vast mountains and rivers and land, all taken in at a single glance.
Penglai Fairyland
This kind of conception, or the construction of an ideological artistic conception, by the creator is precisely a very important link in bonsai creation. The creative conception of bonsai, embodied in the actual bonsai object, is actually the process of conceiving and expressing artistic conception. Generally speaking, there are two ways of expression: conceive first, then create.