Social Trend Of Thought And The Evolution Of Figure Painting Style In Late Ming Dynasty

In the late Ming Dynasty,the diversity of figure painting expanded,breaking the long-term landscape,flowers and birds dominated the situation,Zeng Jia and the "Bochen school" revitalized the traditional portrait painting,so that the portrait rose to the height of literati painting;Chen Hongshou,Cui Zizhong,Wu Bin and Ding Yunpeng created the morphic painting style,leaving a deep and heavy color in the history of Chinese figure painting.There is a common social foundation between the two styles of painting,which seem to be a positive one and a strange one.In the long development of Chinese history,the late Ming Dynasty is a special historical period.There are huge contradictions and conflicts in society,the old order is facing collapse,and the spiritual life of citizens is in chaos.It is in this contradictory social environment and under the impact of mind science and secular culture that the two styles of painting,portrait and transformation,show their opposition to Neo-Confucianism.Anti-asceticism,emphasis on individual development and pursuit of individual liberation of the social trend of thought.In this paper,this kind of social trend of liberation of personality and two different figure painting styles in the late Ming Dynasty will be studied as samples to analyze the internal correlation between the two different painting styles and the era environment,which provides a powerful theoretical support for the author’s artistic practice focusing on exploring the modeling of meticulous figure painting.