What two categories can figure painting be divided into?

1, Taoist painting: a kind of figure painting. Painting with Taoism and Buddhism as its content. Since Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, religious paintings have flourished, and famous artists have emerged in large numbers, most of which are murals.

2. Lady painting: It originally refers to Chinese painting with the life of upper-middle class literati and women as the theme in feudal society, and later it is a sub-item in the subject of figure painting, especially depicting the life of upper-class women. China ladies' paintings were formed in the Jin Dynasty more than 1000 years ago. Lady painting is a kind of figure painting with female images as the description object. In the development process of lady painting, its performance field is also expanding.

3. Portrait painting: a kind of figure painting. A picture depicting a character. It can be divided into head portrait, bust, full-length portrait, group portrait and so on. Portraits have been painted in East Asia for a long time. Western portraiture developed from the Renaissance. With the development of photography technology, portrait painting has also entered the field of photography. The traditional title of China's figure painting is "vivid" or "portrait". It takes people who exist objectively in real life or history as the object of description, and focuses on depicting the specific appearance characteristics and inner charm of the characters through creative methods such as both form and spirit, so as to achieve the effect of both form and spirit.

4. genre painting: it is a kind of figure painting. It is a figure painting with the theme of social life customs. It began in the Han Dynasty, such as tomb murals, stone reliefs and brick reliefs in Liaoyang and Wang Du. Brief introduction of figure painting: a kind of painting. The general term for paintings with figures as the main body. China's figure painting, referred to as figures for short, is a major branch of Chinese painting, which appeared before landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting. Figure painting strives to portray the character's personality vividly, with vivid charm and both form and spirit. His vivid techniques are often reflected in the environment, atmosphere, characters, and the performance of characters in dynamic rendering.

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Basic techniques of figure painting: No matter at home or abroad, in the history of early painting development, figure painting is the main thing, all of which serve religion or politics. From the continuous excavation of ancient silk paintings or murals, we can see the faces of ancient emperors, heroes, sages or literati, which have strong political and religious functions, as well as Buddhist figures such as Buddhism, Bodhisattva, Lohan and even earlier myths and legends, which are full of mysterious religious colors.

You can also see genre paintings that describe real life, ladies paintings that show the court's aesthetic taste, and character story paintings in operas. Different forms and themes of figure painting have detailed emotional descriptions and vivid image descriptions, which bring profound aesthetic feeling to the viewers.

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