In Confucius' family language, there were murals of historical figures in the Zhou Dynasty to persuade the good and forbid the evil. Dragon and Phoenix Figures and Royal Dragon Silk Paintings Unearthed from Chu Tomb in Warring States Period
Silk painting is the earliest known single figure painting. Xunzi's theory of heaven puts forward that "form is physical, and god is born"; Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties is the development period of figure painting in China.
Important period. Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty praised the award-winning paintings in Wei and Jin Dynasties: "Those who have no bow and no eyes are upright; Writing about God in form is actually right, but it is empty.
The purpose of life is good, but it has lost its tendency to show. From Gu Kaizhi's masterpiece Goddess of Loftu, we can appreciate the elegance of "beauty as human" and "vivid"
According to it, it is a blockade. "
In the Tang Dynasty, figure painting began to pay attention to the figure, and then turned to the treatment of figure clothing lines, which led to the creation of formal beauty of lines by figure painters. Clothing texture
The artistic treatment of figure painting marks different schools and styles. "Wu Chengfeng"-the lines turn and the clothes flutter; "Cao clothes come out of water"-lines
Dense, overlapping, tight-fitting clothes; There are also "Zhou family style" and "Zhang family style", all of which are imitation objects and patterns of figure clothing pattern processing.
The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty witnessed the in-depth development of China's figure painting. With the prosperity of the Palace Painting Academy, meticulous figure painting has become more exquisite. And literati painting.
With Li's vigorous development, folk manuscripts were improved to line drawing, which became the mainstream of painting. Influenced by Zen thought since the Southern Song Dynasty
Since the introduction of freehand brushwork figure painting, China figure painting began to develop in another direction. From attaching importance to educational cognitive function to attaching importance to aesthetic function;
From expressing the spirit of the object to expressing the author's feelings more. Ladies' paintings and Gao Shi's paintings have mushroomed. Since the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, although more scholars and painters have turned
However, literati or professional painters who devote themselves to landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting, but are in contact with people's livelihood and concerned about state affairs, have accepted the budding anti-feudal consciousness, but still do not
Lack of excellent figure painting creation. Chou Ying in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Hongshou in the late Ming Dynasty, Ren Yi and Xu Gu in the late Qing Dynasty, and Wu Changshuo in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China are outstanding representatives.
Modern painters such as Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong have made a lot of explorations and contributions in inheriting and developing traditional figure painting in China.
The pens used for figure painting in China were mostly round and flowing before the Tang Dynasty, but they were also very thin in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, such as "Spring Silkworm Spinning Silk" and "High Ancient gossamer". the Tang Dynasty
People's brushwork is as round as "wire"; Wu Daozi flew with a pen, and the tip of the pen showed "orchid leaves"; Song people's line drawing is rigid and multi-folded, such as regular script and pen.
It is called "folding reed tracing"; The Southern Song Dynasty tended to be masculine and rough, such as Li Tang, Ma Yuan and Kai Liang, whose last stream was exposed. Yuan ren and others turned against each other.
Old habits, advocating implication, catching up with the "ancient meaning" of the Tang Dynasty, thus opening up a new look of figure painting in the Yuan Dynasty. China figure painting attaches great importance to the use of lines, especially.
It is the pleat of clothes. For example, in the Tang dynasty, the law was emphasized, the line was rigorous and delicate, in the Song dynasty, the line was properly dense, in the Yuan dynasty, the interest was emphasized, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the temperament was emphasized.
Freely, each formed the beauty of the lines of figure painting.