Tradition and Characteristics of Chinese Figure Painting

Chinese figure painters advocate to God "Jun shape", grasp the eyes, gestures, posture and important details conducive to the transmission of God, emphasizing the separation of primary and secondary, detailed and abbreviated, detailed in the facial gestures to convey the feelings and abbreviated in the clothes and crowns, detailed in the activities of the characters and their expectations of the echo of the abbreviated in the environmental description. In the relationship between the activities of the characters and the environment, lyrical works often create an atmosphere to accentuate the characters' moods, while narrative works are especially good at dividing the space into environmental scenery or indoor furnishings in horizontal or scroll compositions, adopting the method of repeating the main characters and recounting the events that happened in the course of time one by one to break through the limitations of unified time and space. The brush and ink techniques and techniques used in figure painting, in the works of brushwork and color, white drawing and small writing, pay more attention to the role of the brushwork as a base, for which eighteen strokes were created. On the one hand, brushwork or depiction is subordinate to the structural texture, volume and look of the image, on the other hand, it also conveys the author's feelings, and at the same time, it is also used to reflect the author's personal style. In the figure painting, pen and ink are used for each other, ink in the pen, ink in the pen, a pen on paper, not only to the image of God, but also to express the feelings and ideas, but also to show personal style, the degree of difficulty is far better than landscape painting. Portraits of people known as Xingle Tu, always put the characters in a specific scene that is most likely to show their temperament and character, and have different characteristics from general portraits. In terms of the use of color and the combination of poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, figure painting has the characteristics of general Chinese painting.