What are the traditional characteristics of figure painting?

China's figure painters hold that: vivid with form, with both form and spirit. Grasp the vivid eyes, gestures, postures and important details, and emphasize the facial expressions with clear priorities and rough details, which convey feelings but are slightly in clothes, and the details are in people's activities and their expressions and reactions but slightly in environmental description. In terms of the relationship between characters' activities and environmental scenery, lyric works often set off the characters' modality by creating an artistic atmosphere. Narrative works are especially good at dividing space from environmental scenery or indoor furnishings in the form of banners or long scrolls, and using the method of repeated appearance of main characters to describe events in the process of time one by one, breaking through the limitation of unifying time and space. The pen and ink skills and techniques used in figure painting pay more attention to the basic role of brushwork in meticulous color setting, line drawing and small freehand brushwork, thus creating eighteen brushworks. On the one hand, brushwork or description obeys the structural texture, sense of quantity and expression of the image, on the other hand, it also conveys the author's feelings and embodies the author's personal style. Freehand figure painting, pen and ink use each other. There is ink in the pen, a pen in the ink and a drop of paper. It is not only vivid, but also lyrical and vivid, and it also shows personal style, which is far more difficult than landscape flower-and-bird painting. Portraits of people, known as music and pleasure maps, always put people in the specific scenery that is the easiest to express their temperament and personality, which is different from ordinary portraits. On the combination of color application and poetry, painting and calligraphy printing

Figure painting has the characteristics of general Chinese painting.

Figure painting (2 pieces)

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