Ink Portrait Of Realism

Shuimo is an important form of our national painting,using its special tools and materials creates its special features.Itsgeneral apperance looks succinct and transparent, its colour looks tasteful.In our tradition,the kind of painting is called "xieyi".In ancient, it is liked by the literaties of upper-class society,but they usually use it to express their emotion,or relax themselves,and they rarely touch up on complicated actual lives in their painting works.In the dynasty of yuan/ming/qing,shuimo painting is very prosperous,but it is short of person in the works,specially lacks actual creative works,this station persisted to the end of Qing dynasty,in the current of restoring the ancient ways,the creative power of painters is close to die out.The negative station caused dissatisfaction of the innovators, they appealed to improve Chinese painting.Soon afterwords,some painters as Xubeihong lounched to the innovative practice for Chinese painting.Mainly,imported the rigorous modelling concept and the idea of sketch from the West,and they observed life deeply,using tradional toos,created much new works of shuimo painting,began the style of realism.After new China established,the shuimo field of Chinese painting obtained rapid progress,the prosperous state of the the Chinese person painting is very obvious,the artistic attainments is remarkable.Many painters have emerged,they charaterrized many persons of all walks of life,enriching the painting field.The style of realism has broad foundation in people,and it is occupying the position that is not easy to shake.