Yuan Dynasty Portraits "kublai Khan Like" And "young Bamboo West As Shown In Figure Comparative Analysis

The portrait work of Yuan dynasty″Kublai Khan Portrait″and″Yang Zhuxi Portrait″both emphasize realistic painting. The configurations of the figures in the paintings are portrayed very objectively and vividly, but the differences on creation goals, points of view, techniques and themes make the two works take on different artistic looks and aesthetic tendencies. These are closely related with the status, knowledge and accomplishments of the royal portrait painter, the out-of-office intellectual portrait painter and the objects of the creations. Because of the rapid development of science and technology as well as the ethnical disposition of the dominant social class, there existed a tendency of reasonable and objective practicality in Yuan dynasty. The people's cognitive abilities were also greatly enhanced. Moreover, the ethnical contradiction, the social stratum differentiation and the cultural conflicts led to more divergences in painting concepts and aesthetic tendencies of the painters from different social classes and cultural domains. The above two points have resulted in the practicality in portrait works of Yuan dynasty and divergences among different works.