Research Of Tang Dynasty's Qi Luo Figure Painting

The Tang Dynasty, on the basis of the unification of the Sui Dynasty, had been a glorious era in the East with peace society, prosperous economy and powerful national strength after suffering the three hundred years of social turbulence and split during the period of the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties. Its magnificent prosperity and vigorous social outlook have been praised for many years till now. Under these pluralistic circumstances of the Tang Dynasty, painters represented by Zhang xuan and Zhou fangcombining the "Tiexianmiao" with the" Yousimiao",created a new kind of line pattern"Qinsimiao" on the premise of summarizing the model style of meticulous brushwork figure painting. They used this kind of line style to describe the elegant noble women and the common women in the society of Tang Dynasty, which formalized its unique and distinctive Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting. The special historical and cultural background of Tang Dynasty provided extensive developmental space for Qi luo figure painting which had its unique artistic beauty and colorful painting language, reached its climax of the history of meticulous brushwork paintings. The Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting vividly displayed the open-mindedness of social custom and mighty political power of the Tang Dynasty, and also laid down the solid artistic foundations for the future development of the meticulous brushwork in figure painting. Obviously, the achievement of Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting had influenced many countries in the East, and also surpassed all the previous dynasties to be the summit of the Chinese meticulous brushwork figure painting history. The theme of the Qi luo figure painting was extremely broad, which was the miniature of the Tang Dynasty's society, and the perfect combination between reality and art. The painters used the women's making-up, wearing hairpin, playing the instruments, riding, and holding mirrors and lyres as their themes for daily creation, which vividly presented the sumptuous elegance and gorgeousness of the Tang Dynasty's beauties to the later generation.This paper is intended to make the Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting as a start to dwell on its artistic beauty and analyze new trains of thought for the study of Qilluo figure painting. The first chapter analyzes the reasons of the prosperity of Qi luo figure painting through the social, historical and cultural background of the Tang Dynasty: prosperous economy and stable society, the prevailing wind of collection, the requirement of palace art, the precipitation of history and art, the influence of the foreign culture and so on. This chapter also introduces the life stories and the masterpieces of the representatives of the Qi luo figure painting. The second chapter, the key part of the paper, describes the artistic beauty of Qi luo figure painting—that is: profound fun, strong decorative feature, noble and decent style. It also analyzes the fundament and display of its artistic beauty. Based on the culture of freehand brushwork, the modeling of painting instruments and also the openness and inclusiveness of the national policy, the Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting exhibited its profound fun in its theme and content, details and ornament, expression and modeling. What's more, the enhancement of women's social status in Tang Dynasty, the colorfulness of women clothing, the plumpness as the standard of beauty and the modeling methods of line color made the Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting exhibiting strong decorative feature in the aspects of spatial expression, aesthetic model, figure combination, color and pattern design. Corresponding to the prosperous society, Qi luo figure painting vividly exhibited the elegance and extraordinariness of the figures which meant that the portrait of women's natural beauty must display the vividness of the"spirit"and women's elegance so that it could achieve the effect of"true-to-life"impression. The third chapter introduces the colorful painting languages in the Qi luo figure painting, analyzes the unique picture composition language, refined color language and the vigorous and smooth line language. The fourth chapter elaborates the achievement and impact of the Tang Dynasty's Qi luo figure painting, hoping that it can provide new implications and references for the dissemination and development of Chinese modern meticulous brushwork painting.