After thousands of years, China figure painting has developed from ancient times to modern times, and the aesthetic standards and artistic language of creation are gradually systematized, which is obvious to all. With the entry of western culture, Chinese painting is also undergoing a series of improvements, which are more abundant in language culture and expression techniques. The new generation of artists show the spirit of self-sacrifice and selflessness in inheriting tradition and self-innovation. When it comes to inheriting tradition and innovation, the brushwork and modeling of China's figure painting have to be discussed, because that is the core and soul of China's figure painting. China's figure painting is the soul. Besides, artistic language is inseparable from pen and ink. After more than 2,000 years of historical precipitation, China figure painting has gathered the artistic language of countless artists, and its artistic ideas have been perfected day by day, forming a perfect situation today. Everything in the world is changing, and art has never stopped exploring, and Chinese painting is no exception.

Chinese painting encountered the integration of foreign art in the development process. Under this general trend, Chinese painting has shown unprecedented prosperity. But behind the prosperity of art, how to continue to write the traditional spirit of China's painting in order to realize the deeper development and creation of art? The transformation of artistic noumenon is based on traditional painting. He is not negative, but positive. The development of ink figure painting can not be separated from modeling and pen and ink.

China's figure painting has developed to this day, and he has introduced many foreign factors (modeling, color and so on). ). But he must meet three basic conditions: first, Chinese painting is the mainstay; Secondly, the affinity between external factors and Chinese painting; Third, we should maintain the basic nature of Chinese painting. Xu Beihong put forward the view that "artists and scientists have the same spirit of seeking truth, scientific research is based on mathematics, and artistic research is based on sketch". What kind of modeling is combined with Chinese painting? The combination of point, line and surface; The combination of black, white and gray, the combination of sketch and China's sketch, and the combination around the aesthetic requirements of traditional culture.

Modeling is not based on absolute representation, but his idea is to express the feelings of subjective consciousness through objective understanding of objects. He is not a scientific expression like photography. There are thousands of people, and each author has different feelings and understandings. People in society have different external forms because of their different occupations, life experiences and customs, which provide rich raw materials for artistic creation. After the 20th century, a number of avant-garde figure painters, such as Lin Fengmian, Xu Beihong, Jiang and Huang Zhou, emerged in China. They combined the three-dimensional modeling of western painting with China's flower-and-bird painting, made a successful attempt to express modern figures, and created a number of excellent works reflecting the real society, thus promoting the rapid development of figure painting in China.

Modeling is a problem that a character painter has to solve all his life. It is not simply to create an image, but to make the characters more vivid and interesting. Why do we look at some works without any impression? It is because they do not show the true mental state of the characters in the works, and the characters portrayed are too dull and not deep enough, so it is difficult to impress the audience. To "recognize the shape and write the god", it is necessary to "shape with the god". Both form and spirit are the highest realm pursued by figure painting. Therefore, it should be the principle of figure painting that "God is born in shape and shape is made with God".

The pen and ink of Chinese painting is based on modeling. For a long period of history, literati and scholars intervened in the field of painting, and painting became a pastime of staying out of it. When Shi Tao talked about pen and ink in "Bitter Melon and Calligraphy Quotations", there was a passage: "Murphy doesn't want to raise, and the pen is not for life. He doesn't know the god of life, but he can cultivate the spirit, with ink and no pen. " Everything in the mountains and rivers has its opposite, its side, its convergence, its dispersion, its proximity and its distance ... This is the great end of life. So everything in the mountains and rivers is recommended to people. Because people practice this, they have the right to live a sound life. If this is not the case, how can we make the pen and ink have bones, open and close, and be useful ... do their best. "What is described here is the relationship between landscape painting nature and pen and ink techniques, which is also applicable to figure painting. The ancients often said: "Learn from nature, learn from nature. "In fact, how many people can really do it? Modern figure painting has just begun. Artists have made many attempts in the process of language conversion. Use ink painting to express the effect of oil painting, and use ink painting to express light and shadow. They use oil painting, printmaking, watercolor and other techniques to embody ink painting. Some of them are shocking, but some of them deviate from the essence of Chinese painting, and they are neither donkey nor horse, which is not satisfactory.

This is a harmonious society where a hundred flowers blossom, and artists can speak freely and express their opinions. Ink painting is both classical and modern. The aesthetic feeling of pen and ink changes with shape, which is a supernatural spiritual phenomenon. In a word, the recognition standard of pen and ink comes from tradition and will keep pace with the times, which is a dynamic process of constant change. Pen and ink is not synonymous with tradition, it will become more and more perfect with the passage of time and gradually move towards an ideal artistic realm.