What are the genres of contemporary figure painting?

Chinese brush figure painting has a long history of development, in the Tang Dynasty has reached the peak, each body is ready, colorful, and then declining, gradually into the valley. Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, although the excellent brush painting artists continue to appear, but never become the mainstream of the painting world. Since the founding of China, Xu Beihong, who had laid a solid foundation in Chinese and Western painting techniques, advocated the integration of sketching into the study of Chinese figure painting, which had a far-reaching impact on the Chinese painting world. In the long shock, figure painting was revived and prospered, absorbing wisdom from tradition, searching for materials from real life, and drawing nourishment from the essence of foreign paintings, which provided an indelible new path for the prosperous development of Chinese figure painting. Since the 1980s, Chinese figure painting has entered a period of prosperity, and the creative style of figure painting has been characterized by the diversification of themes and formal styles; the conscious artistic activities of artists formed under certain social conditions have contributed to the emergence and development of a certain creative style; and the different preferences of different groups of people for the methods of artistic creation have led to the diversification of the methods of artistic creation styles.

Contemporary figure painting is in a multicultural background, the loose artistic scope of figure painting has a broader space. Painters with an open mind to absorb the essence of ancient and modern China and abroad, whether in oil painting, mural painting, printmaking, comic strips, decorative painting, as long as beneficial to the performance of the creative style to be absorbed and borrowed, which makes the current style of creation of brush figure painting has a rich expressive power, presenting a variety of possibilities, and even some of the style of creation of the work of the brush painting has exceeded our imagination. Work-brush painting is the use of neat and meticulous brushwork to depict objects, is a form of painting in the tradition of Chinese painting, the pursuit of painting means of decorative meaning, styling techniques emphasize the purpose of writing, generalization, refinement, and advocate to the charm, the thinking of the gods as a precursor to grasp the essence of the image of the form, which indicates that the contemporary work-brush figure painting world is a variety of colorful language forms, to accurately categorize these languages is It is difficult to categorize these languages accurately.

1. The pursuit of traditional realistic features, that is, the style of neatness, meticulous, fond of the classical figure painting brushwork, the use of lines and layers of rendering of modern elements, and borrowed from the rigorous and solid modeling techniques in Western painting, re-conceptualizing their own language and form. He Jiaying, Li Aiguo and other representatives of a part of the brush painting in the inheritance of tradition on the basis of the integration of Western concepts of realism, out of a realistic traditional route.

2. Absorbing the language of ink and wash painting and decorative painting, and strengthening the realism of figure painting, that is, absorbing the language of ink and wash painting and its realism. It comes out from the traditional neatness and meticulousness, carries out the experiment of splashing color and ink, strengthens the pictoriality of the work-brush painting, and adopts the ink brushwork and the essence of pictoriality into its own language form, which not only enriches the expression of the work-brush figure painting, but also integrates the painting situation of the classical paintings such as "work-brush" and "pictoriality", and "pictoriality" and "pictoriality", and so on. "pictorial", "color" and "ink", and so on, have all realized a great fusion in contemporary times. The introduction of folk art forms of expression, focusing on decorative modeling concepts, absorbing Western compositional modeling concepts, and the gradual formation of decorative deformation of the new style of heavy color figure painting. This kind of painting has a strong color pair, simple and exaggerated modeling, showing a unique style.

3. The study of painting materials, drawing on oil paintings, prints and murals, intellectual ability to shape the color and material aesthetics of the performance, and a variety of creative techniques and methods to try. In recent years, expression by material has become the general trend of painting communication, and the use of materials, texture media and other technical elements in the painting process of Gongbi figure painting has become more and more obvious. The expansion and use of painting materials have greatly enriched the language expression of Gongbi painting, which makes Gongbi figure painting have a wider field of expression and more eye-catching visual effect compared with the paintings of the classical period.

The reasons for the diversification of the creative style of contemporary figure painting

1. The difference of geographical and cultural choices

The uniqueness of contemporary cultural context will certainly produce artistic expressions that meet the aesthetic needs of the contemporary people, and this is the demand of the times. In the contemporary multi-cultural context, the artist's cultural value orientation, aesthetic ideals no longer have a single standard, the creation of Chinese brush figure painting has broken through the limitations of the past aesthetic mode of singularity, mode, almost every brush figure painter is trying to break through the traditional mode of brush figure painting, different styles, different schools of brush figure painting works are emerging. All these signs indicate that contemporary Chinese brush figure painting has entered an era of diversity and juxtaposition, and the search for breakthroughs has become inevitable.

2. Artistic personality of different artists, contributing to the art style of contemporary figure painting

Reform and opening up ushered in the modern art trend emphasizing the individuality of art creation, in the East-West cultural fusion, the contemporary Chinese painting world is entering the process of diversification of forms of expression, and face the problem of how to modern transformation. The majority of contemporary figure painters consciously respect their own regional and national cultural values of individuality, and strive to conform to their own mode of thinking, and actively build and expand their unique personalized artistic expression of the situation, exploring the direction of development of the arts and to the modern metamorphosis