Superficial Exploration About The Development Of Traditional Chinese Realistic Figure Paintings

At the present time, the researches and studies of traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings mostly involve outward linguistic forms like representations of techniques and so on. People lack a deep study of the understanding of the essence and connotation of representations of arts. However, this thesis regards that we must grasp the essence and connotation of representations of arts in the current background of the collision between external cultures and Chinese native cultures if we want to hand down traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings and make the creativity and development of its formal language come true. Only we innovate formal language on the basis of grasping of the essence and connotation of representations of arts, can it be called a true creativity.On condition that a considerable amount of research about ancient and modern traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings has been done and on the basis of the practice of traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings, the author of this thesis concludes "describing hearts and minds" and "expressing meaning" are the essence and connotation of representations of arts in Chinese paintings. From the generation of traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings and its development in Five Dynasties, the Tang and Song Dynasties and the Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties; from its creativity and its current situation of exploration in modern and contemporary times; combining my understandings which derive from the practice of works , this thesis holds that in the development of traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings in modern and contemporary times we must lick the problem of inheriting the essence and connotation of representations of arts: " describing hearts and minds" and "expressing meaning". At the same time, it is essential to deal with the integration of the creativity of its formal language and the essence and connotation of representations of arts properly.