A Brief Talk On Chinese Figure Painting Sketching

In the 21st century, Chinese national politics and economy are prosperous and powerful day by day. It brings constantly expanding cultural self-confidence and cultural vision to us Chinese. Independent, individual and multitudinous contemporary culture forces Chinese painting to walk out from the conservative and secluded state of the traditional scholar painting. The care of the life and the alive contemporary experience make the Chinese painters pay more attention to life and nature, so teaching from nature or"sketching in actual life"becomes an important means that contemporary painters use to improve and perfect the language of painting.By early 21st century, some painters such as Xu beihong, using the standard of occidental scientific realistic painting for reference, advocated using the method of occidental scientific painting to improve Chinese painting. In the end, formed a new realistic figure painting tradition that combined the features of occidental scientific realistic painting and traditional literati painting, that valuing the appearance and painting at the same time .Chinese figure painting presents a many-sided and flourishing tendency. With the study of occidental painting system and traditional painting theory, figure painting sketching has already become an important Chinese painting course in academy of fine arts. Qi baishi, Huang binhong, Xu beihong, Jiang zhaohe, Shi lu, Zhao wangyun, Huang zhou and Yie qianyu etc., such famous Chinese painters'sketching propositions and theories are changing with the development of the time, and adapt to the aesthetic standards of different times. So it is without doubt meaningful for our figure painting sketching to study their sketching methods and theories today.The essay has five sections to discuss the figure painting sketching.â… .The practical significance of figure painting sketchinga. Sketching is a bridge to draw on the experience of traditional painting.b. Sketching is the exploration to cultivate keen feeling and painting language.c. Sketching is an important way to study nature.â…¡.The traditional formation of figure painting sketching can be separated into theTang & Song Dynasty Period and the Ming & Qing Dynasty Period. The essay discusses the change of figure painting sketching and the social cultural relationship during these two periods.â…¢.The modern formation of figure painting, under the background of modern time culture, gives a brief account of the sketching propositions and state of Qi baishi and Huang binhong, Xu beihong and Jiang zhaohe, Shi lu and Zhao wangyun , Huang zhou and Yie qianyu.â…£. Sketch and calligraphy are the basic skills of figure painting sketching From the necessary of frequent painting and fast sketching ,creation and the meaning of sketch, the essay describes that strengthening the practice of calligraphy, studying the artistic interest of lines and formal aesthetic feeling ,and carrying forward the good national traditions, all of these are the basic skills to improve figure painting sketching.â…¤.The modern tendency of figure painting sketchingThrough the discussion of figure painting sketching in painting realism reform period and multicultural period, it shows that figure painting sketching is an independent artistic style in Chinese painting. The conclusion is: Chinese figure painting sketching is not only carrying on tradition but developing it, not just using foreign culture completely but has its own characteristics. People should take care of daily life and humane background, pay attention to self values, then can face up to traditional values. Chinese figure painting sketching has to own sketch and calligraphy these two basic skills. Figure painting sketching is an independent artistic style in Chinese painting.