Enlightment Of The Ming Dynasty Royal Portrait To The Creation Of Contemporary Chinese Realistic Figure Painting

It's a tradition of Chinese painting to pay attention to portraits portraying,which stresses expressing emotion by shape lively . Early Chinese portraits with strong utilitarian tinge were mostly used to sing the praises of emperors and sages, making them admired and remembered. The development of the portrait with higher artistic level and enhance of the public aesthetic accomplishment, have made portrait become not only an independent and unique painting type but also a model for later generations. The objects of this paper are these excellent Ming dynasty palace portraits.For the purpose of researching tradition is to better grasp and rectify the contemporary art creation to create works with both cultural connotation and innovation, this paper discusses several enlightenments about photo mode, modeling style and performance skills to contemporary fine brush painting creation from Ming dynasty palace portrait. The first part, introduces the emerging background, content, nature and function of portrait. The second part, introduces some inherits of Ming dynasty palace portrait from Song dynasty portrait in modeling and coloring etc, which embody the portrait outstanding personality,outstanding personality, accurate structure and vivid image etc. The third part, analyze modeling philosophy of Ming dynasty palace portrait, through from plane modeling, color and line aspects. The fourth part summarizes the present situation of the contemporary fine brush painting with identical, monotonous and artificial problems, advocating contemporary fine brush painting creation to absorb useful factors from portrait, and stick to the tradition of image molding and vivid style.