A Study On The Art Of Fang Zengxian 's Ink Paintings

There is this one figure painter who specialize in ink: he combined the western structural sketch with Chinese traditional painting, creatively applied the Chinese brushwork while tracing out realistic figures; he enhanced the visual impact of figure painting by creatively blend in Chinese method of landscape painting, and renovated new art trend full of Chinese element, and push Chinese ink figure painting to a new age. Through all the experiments he did, he create new theory and method of describing human figure, popularize and promote the art of realistic figure painting.He is indeed an influential ink figure painter in modern China. Someone said without exaggerate that he marked the milestone of Chinese modern figure painting art history.His work is popular. Great works of research about Fan Zengxian’s ink figure paint emerge has been emerging in endless. Most of them focus on the mature works of him.But to find out his trend of exploring, it is best to start with a broader aspect, and deeply study into his inner spirit of sketching, revolution of method, and his characteristic of art, to follow his changing method through half of a century. By then,clearing the fog, appears the road he travel led.The point of the essay includes: 1. Historical and social background of Fang Zengxian’s work and his theory; 2. Fang Zengxian and Zhejiang School of inherit and carry forward in Figure Painting; 3. Artistic characteristic of Fang Zengxian’s ink figure painting; 4. Contribution and impact of Fang Zengxian’s ink figure painting.The essay will especially focus on describe how Fang Zengxian renovate Chinese method of figure painting and feature of his work.