Landscape painting sketching, as one of the core practices of traditional Chinese art, essentially captures the integration of nature and nature through the language of brush and ink, and constructs an aesthetic conception of "harmony between man and nature". This article focuses on the artistic conception of landscape painting sketching and explores it from three dimensions: techniques, philosophy, and emotional expression. Firstly, analyze the bidirectional interaction between "learning from nature" and "gaining inspiration from the heart" in landscape painting sketching, pointing out that painters extract the "emptiness" of ink and brush through observing the "reality" of nature, forming a spatial hierarchy where reality and virtuality coexist; Secondly, combining the Taoist concept of "forgetting both the object and the self" and the Confucian concept of "cultivating virtue", this paper elaborates on the spiritual projection of the subject on natural landscapes during the process of sketching, so that the picture transcends superficial imitation and carries humanistic philosophical thoughts; Finally, taking classic sketches from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties as an example, this paper argues that the realization of the artistic conception of landscape painting relies on the innovative transformation of "brush and ink following the times", which integrates individual life experiences on the basis of inheriting traditional composition, and elevates natural landscapes into spiritual patterns. Research has shown that the core of the artistic conception of landscape painting sketching lies in the dynamic balance of "depicting the spirit with form". It is not only a practical paradigm of classical Chinese aesthetics, but also provides a dual inspiration for contemporary art creation of "returning to nature" and "introspection spirit".

Bo Shen. The Artistic Conception Description of Landscape Painting Sketching. Frontiers in Art Research (2025) Vol. 7, Issue 1: 52-57. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2025.070109.

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