| Not yet enough attention has been received by his achievements on the academic teaching of figurative drawings (during the 50' s & the 60' s of the Twenties century) while art critiques tend to focus their case studies only on Fang ZengXian's Chinese ink paintings on rice paper, however, during my (a. k. a. 'the author' s' ) college time spent at CAFA ('Central Academy of Fine Art' ), I' ve come to deeply understand the importance of figurative drawings as the foundation to: ink paintings, per se. It' s essentially necessary to emphasize on Mr. Fang' s figurative drawings in order to further study the ink paintings as a whole. My essay conducts the research towards the center point of Mr. Fang' s figurative drawings in which, it displayed a problem-solving scenario of how to apply drawing basics to overcome the difficulties of skill development in terms of 'shaping-up' in Chinese Figure Ink Paintings. My research will also elucidate Mr. Fang' s theory and statement in some of his representational drawings.Drawing had been first introduced into China as a fundamental method for Figurative Ink Painting at around early 1920' s. After Communist Revolution of 1949, all of art schools in Mainland were forced to learn drawing skills from Chaschakolv School of former Soviet Union. When in practice, the Russian drawing skills as to Figurative Ink Painting, chiaroscuro is not propitious to appreciation of the Chinese traditional custom of line drawing and ink that penetrates the rice paper. It simply didn' t quite fit Chinese aesthesis. To solve this problem, Mr. Fang' s paintings used line drawing which was propitious to Chinese traditional custom. He reduced chiaroscuro effect in his drawing and drew with lines - only the line in his paintings. Another remaining issue came afterward; how ink paintings create shape using the line and ink penetrates rice paper which is so attached to the skills used for Chinese calligraphy. Do we need to apply the same skill-set developed from it when we do a drawing? Mr. Fang answered this question by the motive of doing drawing. Drawing with line is the first step of painting Figure Ink Painting by using the same skills for Chinese calligraphy. To create shape with line drawing is not to portray the object from real life. It is to draw the line with painter' s own initiative representing the object based upon his understanding of the structure of object through his own vision.Mr. Fang' s understanding of structure of the object is to implant and utilize the early drawing theory stemming from the Western School of the Nineteenth century into his classes to help students comprehend not only in a view of scientific rule of nature but also does make a visual sense. Consequently, his figurative drawing is a 'special' kind of drawing for Chinese Figure Ink Paintings, in a way. Though, it follows scaLe anatomy and perspectives that are the same as any other drawings, theoretically. While using charcoal effectively given the closeness and similarity to Chinese Figure Ink Paintings by the looks, his reconstructed drawings responded well to the questions of how to utilize drawing as formative handwork in forming the shape with line and ink penetrating in Chinese Figure Ink Painting. |
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