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In Chinese brush painting, there are also many types, and the Chinese classical brush painting figures, with its eternal artistic charm through the history of time and space, as a contemporary artist, we have to use the new era of artistic feeling to construct the new form of this ancient form of painting, so that the Chinese brush painting figures with a new language style blossom colorful. Here are some pictures of Chinese brush painting for you to enjoy, so you can enjoy a different visual feast.

Introduction to the figure in brush painting

The figure in brush painting is divided into light color and heavy color. Because of the different types of subject matter is divided into figures, Taoism, customs, ladies and portraits. And because of the difference in the style of painting is divided into work-brush figure, simple brush figure, ink figure, white figure and Wu costume figure.

The traditional subject of Chinese painting, in which the activity of the figure is the main object of depiction, is divided into many categories according to the type of subject matter. It is divided into many sub-divisions depending on the type of subject matter: depicting historical stories and real people is called figure, depicting immortals, Buddhists, monks and Taoist priests is called Taoism and Buddhism, depicting social customs is called customs, depicting women is called ladies, and portraits are called portraits. And because of the difference in painting style is divided into a number of categories: carving fine outlining coloring the name of the brushwork figures, painting method of the name of the simple brushwork figures or writing figures, painting style unrestrained ink drenched in ink the name of the ink figures, pure line drawing or a little bit of ink coloring the name of the figure of the white, mainly line drawing but a little bit of light coloring on the head, face, hands and feet the name of the figure of the Wuzhuang. Figure Painting is a subject of Chinese painting that directly reflects the reality. In Chinese painting, it is the most valuable in terms of cognitive value and educational significance.

Development of Figure Painting

Figure painting was created earlier than other Chinese painting. In the Zhou Dynasty, there were murals of historical figures who advised good and prevented evil. In the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, there was a proliferation of works based on stories and activities of historical realities and mythological figures.

Warring States: The "Characters Dragon and Phoenix" and "Characters Harnessing the Dragon" silk paintings unearthed in the tombs of Chu during the Warring States period are the earliest known works of solo figure paintings.

Wei and Jin dynasties: Wei and Jin dynasties, the liberation of ideas, the introduction of Buddhism, the prevalence of metaphysics, the establishment of professional painters, contributing to the figure of painting from a slight and refined, religious painting is particularly prosperous, appeared to Gu Kaizhi as the representative of the first masters of figure painting, but also appeared in the "Wei and Jin Shengliu Painting Praise," the "On Painting" as the representative of the first figure of the painting thesis, the foundation of an important tradition of figure painting in China.

Tang: During the Tang Dynasty, Wu Daozi advanced religious figure painting into a new realm that was more expressive and vivid.

After the Five Dynasties

The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty were a period of intensive development for Chinese figure painting. With the establishment of the Palace Painting Academy, the figure painting with heavy coloring became more exquisite, and with the rise of literati painting, the folk manuscripts were improved by Li Gonglin into a style of painting known as white drawing. With the development of urban and rural economy in the Song Dynasty and the struggle between Song and Jin, social customs and realistic historical stories also flourished. Zhang Zeduan's masterpiece "Qingming Shanghe Tu" was produced during this period. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, under the influence of Zen thought, Liang Kai's ink-splash and simple brushwork figure paintings marked the emergence of realistic figure paintings, and Chinese figure paintings began to develop in another direction. The paintings of ladies and gentlemen appeared in large numbers. Afterwards, Chen Hongshou at the end of the Ming Dynasty and Ren Yi at the end of the Qing Dynasty created many excellent works of figure painting.

Modern Chinese figure painting has made an unprecedented contribution by thoroughly studying the tradition and extensively absorbing foreign techniques to express the life of the new era.

Contemporary Chinese Figure Painting Contemporary Celebrities

Contemporary Chinese Figure Painting He Jiaying is considered to be one of the leading painters, as well as Li Naiwei, Tang Yongli, Wang Yingsheng, Wang Gensheng, Cui Jin, Feng Changjiang, Wang Shuhui, Jiang Shiguo, Wang Meifang, Zhao Guoxing, Liu Quanyi, Hu Yongkai, Cui Jingzhe, Huang Peijie, Han Xuezhong, Li Qinglei, Huang Jun, Fang Renya, Ye Hua, and Wu Yuyang, and so on.

Contemporary Figure Painting Characteristics: Contemporary figure painting styling accepts the Western method of focusing on sketching, and emphasizes achieving the expression of the spiritual world of the figure through the realism of the form. In the painting technique fused with the expression of many types of paintings, such as the wet and dry painting method of watercolor painting and the thick painting method of oil painting, etc..