Chic Jun Yi Photo God - Fu Portraits Art Style Exploration

Well-known to the world with his landscape painting, Fu Baoshi is a great master of the Chinese art circle in the 20th century. His original creation of "Baoshi light-ink strokes" has an important position in the history of Chinese landscape painting. Compare with his tremendous achievement of landscape painting, Fu Baoshi's figure painting has not been completely realized. The objective to study Fu Baoshi's figure painting is to discover its artistic value, achievement and status. It seems to us that Fu Baoshi's figure painting lacks originality and is confined to tradition, as compared to his landscape painting. A careful study will discover that Fu's figure painting enjoys unique artistic glamour and the achievement in figure painting is no inferior to landscape painting. It is Fu's fine and ingenious figure painting that contrasts the majestic vigor in his landscape painting, while his unconventional and elegant figure painting blows fresh wind into the dignified figure painting in the 20th century. Though the figures Fu Baoshi depicts are mainly historical characters in ancient poetry or literary quotations, the traditional flavor does not lessen his immense achievement in figure painting in the least. Fu Baoshi's unconventional and elegant figure painting has its origin in history. From the void and vacantness in the artistic realm of the six dynasties to the artistic style of Chen Laolian in the Ming and Shi Tao in the Qing dynasties, Fu Baoshi draws ample nutrition in traditional Chinese painting. Based on his theoretic cultivation and practical experience, he creates his unique well-defined style in figure painting. Modeling after the traditional skeleton technique, Fu Baoshi creates figures in full verve in the spirit of correspondence between man and universe. Fu Baoshi is renowned as "rare talent in painting", "a pioneer in innovation ", and "a brand-new explorer in the transition between traditional and modern painting." Published in 1947,The Chinese Fine Arts Annals highly praised Fu Baoshi's achievement in Chinese painting as "exceptional contribution in the transition between tradition and innovation, novelty in taste and loftiness and antiquity in style. His painting is magnificent and marvelous in framework, deep and profound in artistic conception, elegant and graceful in line, forceful and miraculous in color, unsophisticated and smooth in ink and bold and vigorous in momentum. Owing to his vivid portrayal in figure painting and abundant ingenuity in landscape painting, Fu Baoshi opens a newera of Chinese painting.