Brief introduction of meticulous figures
Meticulous figure painting can be divided into light color and heavy color. Due to different subject categories, it can be divided into figures, Taoism, customs, ladies and portraits. Because of different painting styles, it can be divided into meticulous figures, simple figures, ink splashing figures, line drawing figures and Wuzhuang figures.
Chinese painting with character activities as the main description object. Because of the different subject categories, it is divided into many branches: people who describe historical stories and real people, people who describe the praise and explanation of immortals, Buddhists and Buddhists, customs who describe social customs, ladies who describe women, and portraits. Due to the different styles of painting, it can be divided into several categories: those who depict workers carefully sketching colorful characters, those who wash and relax with freehand brushwork or freehand brushwork, those who paint with unrestrained ink, those who paint with pure line drawing or a little ink, and those who focus on line drawing but lightly sketch their heads, feet and feet, which are called Wuzhuang figures. Figure painting is a painting discipline that directly reflects reality in Chinese painting. Among all the subjects of Chinese painting, it has the most cognitive value and educational significance.
The development course of meticulous figures
The emergence of figure painting is earlier than other disciplines of Chinese painting. In the Zhou Dynasty, there were murals of historical figures who advised the good and prohibited the evil. By the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, a large number of works had appeared with the stories and activities of historical reality or mythical figures as their themes.
Warring States Period: The silk paintings "Dragon and Phoenix with Pictures" and "Dragon with Pictures" unearthed from Chu Tomb in Warring States Period are the earliest known single figure paintings.
Wei and Jin Dynasties: During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the liberation of ideas, the introduction of Buddhism, the popularity of metaphysics and the establishment of professional painters contributed to the refinement of figure paintings, especially the prosperity of religious paintings. The first generation of figure painting masters, represented by Gu Kaizhi, and the first generation of figure painting theories, represented by Wei Jinsheng's Zan Hua and Lun Hua, laid an important tradition of figure painting in China.
Tang: In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wu Daozi pushed the figures in religious paintings to a new position, which was more expressive and vivid.
After five generations
The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty were the period of in-depth development of China's figure painting. With the establishment of the Palace Painting Academy, meticulous figure painting has become more exquisite. With the rise of literati painting, folk manuscripts have been improved into a painting style, which is called line drawing by Li. With the development of urban and rural economy in Song Dynasty, the dispute between Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, realistic social genre paintings and historical story paintings also flourished. Zhang Zeduan's masterpiece The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival came into being in this period. Influenced by Zen in the Southern Song Dynasty, Kai Liang's splash-ink stick figure painting marked the rise of freehand figure painting, and China's figure painting began to develop in another direction. Ladies' paintings and Gao Shi's paintings appear in large numbers. Later, Chen Hongshou in the late Ming Dynasty and Ren Yi in the late Qing Dynasty created many excellent figure paintings.
China's modern figure painting has made unprecedented contributions to the in-depth study of tradition, the extensive absorption of foreign techniques and the presentation of life in the new era.
Meticulous figures, works of contemporary celebrities
He Jiaying, a contemporary meticulous figure painter, is second to none, just like Li Naiwei, Wang Yingsheng, Feng Changjiang,,,,, Zhao, Liu Quan, Hu Yongkai, Cui Jingzhe, Huang Peijie, Han Xuezhong, Li Qingbai, Huang Jun, Fang Renye, Ye Hua and Wu Yuyang.
Characteristics of contemporary meticulous figure painting: Contemporary meticulous figure painting has accepted the western method of paying attention to sketch, emphasizing that the spiritual world of characters can be expressed through physical realism. In terms of painting techniques, it combines a variety of expression techniques, such as wet and dry paintings of watercolors and thick paintings of oil paintings.