Yan's Walking Painting, Zhou Lie's Flower Lady Painting, Fan Lady Painting, Gong, etc. Both of them mainly use two contrasting colors, cinnabar and stone green, to highlight the beauty of figures and costumes, with subtle colors, or elegant and rich, or soft and colorful; Pay attention to composition, strewn at random, strewn at random; The lines are thin, even the lines of clothes are smooth and round, very decorative, and contain strong decorative beauty. These classic works of meticulous figure painting in its heyday reflect the high harmony between decoration and painting.
What is particularly gratifying is that when meticulous figure painting entered its maturity or even its heyday, some great painters and literati at that time participated in the summary and refinement of painting theory, and formed systematic theoretical works on traditional painting principles and aesthetic concepts, which contributed to the development of meticulous figure painting and left creative techniques and theoretical inheritance for future generations. Six Laws and Catalogue of Ancient Paintings by Sheikh, a portrait painter in Wei and Jin Dynasties: On Painting by Gu Kaizhi; Wang Wei's Narrative Painting, etc. Their aesthetic concept summarizes the artistic achievements of meticulous figure painting in this period. Zhang Yanyuan's Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty is the earliest monograph on the history of painting in China.
A careful study of the master's paintings and their theories can confirm each other and appreciate his distinctive and unique artistic style and strict creative standard system. It is particularly important for us to adjust our mentality and broaden our minds by helping us to calm down, be less arrogant and have more respect for Master.
Elegance and elegance are unique to beautiful women in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of the empire, blooming in those gaudy faces, is colorful and intoxicating.
Unlike the ladies' paintings in the Tang Dynasty, which mainly describe the life of the court and nobles, the children's paintings in the Song Dynasty have a strong folk color. In front of children's smiling faces, all the solemnity and sacredness, all the beauty and nobility suddenly become insignificant.
Among the figure paintings in the Tang Dynasty, perhaps there is no theme that can vividly convey the melody and scenery of this prosperous time than the lady painting.
In this era, the "show bones and clear images" advocated by scholars in Wei and Jin Dynasties has disappeared. Elegant elegance is unique to beautiful women in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This style is full of prosperity, self-confidence, satisfaction and atmosphere, which is unprecedented and unprecedented, reflecting the mental state of an era. After the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the image of a lady was full and lost her vitality.
The dress and makeup of women in the Tang Dynasty changed a lot, whether it was "skirt red and jealous of pomegranate flowers" or "a little red and inclined face", they all showed prosperity and strength. The wide and narrow stripes on the long skirts in the early Tang Dynasty have always influenced Japan across the sea.
There are 10 kinds of flower buds decorated with ladies' hair and eyebrows in paintings and pottery figurines in the Tang Dynasty, which show the exquisiteness and stress of aristocratic life.
The atmosphere of ladies' paintings in the Tang Dynasty is relaxed and glamorous, and viewers can enjoy the beauty of this era calmly under the guidance of the artist's smooth and soothing lines. Just like Li Taibai's poems, these beautiful ladies' paintings are soaked in golden jars of wealth and splendor.
The appearance of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty shows that China's paintings have further expanded in content. Painters' eyes are no longer limited to the upper class, but ordinary farmers and pawns have become the objects of artists' attention.
At the same time, children's theme painting in Song Dynasty has also become an independent painting, often called "baby play painting", which has a strong folk color and shows a keen grasp of human daily life and emotions.
The popularity of children's paintings in Song Dynasty is inseparable from the development of commodity economy and civic culture in Song Dynasty.