Drawing Like A Poem

As one of the most important artists of Northern Song Dynasty，Li Gonglin also be the most important artist of the Chinese traditional paintinghistory，who innovated the line drawing with traditional ink and brushstyle to create a new style of figure painting.This article trying to get a view about LI’s style and the innovationof his painting skills and his thinking by research the way of LI’s worksand the way of works which have some similarity of LI’s by the painterwho living the early era of Northern Song Dynasty. And also by researchthe way of works which created by people who living the same era or bythe people who living after LI’s era.This article trying to discuss the new way of Chinese TraditionalRealistic Painting by researching Li Gong Ling’s creativity thinking.