How the ancients painted women

The ancients usually used ink and wash painting to depict women.

Ancient depictions of women were mainly the ladies' drawings of successive dynasties, which are also known as "ladies' paintings", and are paintings and artworks based on the themes of courtesans in Chinese feudal society. The earliest in the Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, prosperity in the Tang and Song dynasties, the Yuan Dynasty due to social unrest and political conflict gradually declined, the Ming and Qing dynasties flourished again, and the creation of the heyday of the era.

The East Jin Dynasty's "Ladies' Drawings" are represented by Gu Kaizhi's "Luoshen Fu", "Women's History", and "Ladies' Drawings". Gu Kaizhi (348-409), the word Changkang, Jinling Wuxi (present-day Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province), learned and versatile, good at poetry, calligraphy, painting, as China's ancient outstanding painters, painting theorists, poets.

The Tang Dynasty was a flourishing period for the creation of "Ladies", in which the artist emphasized the curves of the female body and delicate posture, depicting ladies with rounded and full faces, rich and graceful bodies, and graceful and gorgeous temperament, showing the noble beauty of women under the flourishing Tang Dynasty.

Ancient Chinese Painting

Ancient Chinese Painting is the picture of the social life in ancient times of China, which was depicted and recorded by artists in the form of paintings during the long process of cultural development of our country, referred to as "Chinese Painting" and "National Painting". Chinese painting emphasizes the "external teacher, in the source of the heart", the requirements of the form of writing God, the form of both God, to achieve the "intention of the first pen, painting in the intention".