Figure Painting In The Tang Dynasty Style

The figure painting in the Tang Dynasty, advocating meticulousness, displays beautiful magnificence, glowing brilliance and board imposing manner. Because of its unique modeling system and aesthetic conception, painting in the Tang Dynasty has immortal vitality. Viewing from the angle of aesthetic taste of the times and the measures of painting theory of the Tang Dynasty, this paper discusses the cultural origins of "the meaning beyond the words" of figure painting in the Tang Dynasty. By appreciating some classical figure paintings, it analyzes the unique modeling skills—to establish and abstract the modeling by bone method, to supplement and decorate by coloring adhere to inclination, to process the space by disposition, to pursue specific model with the nature of "real", and to construct aesthetic ideal and spiritual connotation with symbolic "image". Thus, it benefits to value and arrange the tradition of the figure painting in the Tang Dynasty, and helps to understand and study its plump and tensioned modeling system.