From The Image Yanbian Chinese Brushwork Figure Obstacles And Breakthrough

As a traditional Chinese painting style, meticulous figure painting is subject to stiffness, annoyance and dullness due to the fixed model and refinement of expression, which greatly hinders its development. With the development of society, contemporary people's cultural taste, spirit need and esthetic concepts change dramatically. Traditional line modeling and expressive function begin to show its imitation. People's appreciation ability of lines are weakened. Instead, they are now more focusing on the line-plane modeling, color modeling and texture expression; and more attention has been paid to the overall making of the painting's strengthens and weakness as well as its reality and imaginatign. Therefore, we should aware that the contemporary meticulous figure painting has already, to a certain degree, exposed its expression inadequacy in skill manifestation, aestheticism conveyance and atmosphere construction.As the fundamental moral principles for every Chinese feudal literati, Loyalty, filial piety, courtesy, righteousness and credit have deeply rooted in the character-shaping of the Chinese people. National traditions of thousands years, along with Taoism and Confucianism passing from generation to generation, latently confine people's aesthetical appreciation of art. It is such a Chinese cultural tradition that binds the meticulous figure paintings in all ages together, resulting in the high unitarity of their cultural connotation. The painting process of Chinese meticulous figure painting is no other than the process of pursuing nature, which means the painter should try to convey a natural aesthetical feeling to the appreciation subjects by imitating nature and with nature in his/her mind. No matter which painting style is chosen, the aesthetic theory of Chinese painting has always stick to a principle, that is, pursuing the spirit connotation, atmosphere and stroke spiritualism. Meticulous figure painting has undergone many failed practices since long time, and the contemporary meticulous figure painting is still suffering from the hardship of exploration and innovation. Base on the above situation, this paper will explore the traditional origin and aesthetic characteristics of meticulous figure painting imago. Moreover, with the analysis of the ups and downs of meticulous figure painting in all ages, the author will present his opinion on the direction of contemporary meticulous figure painting and envisage its future. Contemporary meticulous figure painting should ground itself on the new contemporary painting expressive method, inherit the free style characteristic from the traditional meticulous painting, stick to the imago modeling concept of using lines to express objects, and create elegant and artistically beautiful paintings by combing the reality and imagination as well as the concreteness and abstractness. In this way, meticulous figure painting will cater for contemporary people's aesthetic appreciation taste and advance its further development.