From The Portrait To The Symbol

Art is a way of viewing the world. When artists turned his attentionto history, history will have another means because of it, for there hasbeen transformed rfom the "fact" to "image" handled by artists. Artistsare not necessary to compete with historians,and they are not topursue the "real", but to taste and enjoy these details, and then putthem in the form of art. Artists can not judge the history, but be sure toappreciate history. This article is about the thinking of how to createhistorical figure painting. On the one hand, the history of painting hasits features. Historical painting is based on historical events. On thetechnique of expression, it usually presents idealized, typicalcharacteristic. It can also say that the most important feature of thehistory painting is enlightenment, to draw good painting history, mustunder the premise of faithful historical background. To draw goodhistorical paintings, we must be faithful to historical background. Thatis, only in a cetrain historical stage, under the premise of a conformto the historical context, can we produce a wide range of creation. Onthe other hand, by way of painting the ifgures in the history of thesymbolic, must understand the symbolic meaning. Thus, we need to befurther studied in the painting language. We must learn from themasters of the art, absorb nutrition rfom ancient classic paintings.However, the learning tradition is not the ultimate goal, Whatis important is that ifnd their own masters atr direction throughlearning the successful experience, formed its own unique paintinglanguage to dig its own advantages. Historic painting, is a historicalmonument, and is not a historical image. Artists can make use of allforms by using any method, according to their emotional attitude ofthe historical events or historical figures, to determine the historicalscenes of reproduction. Of course, the artist has the obligation to letthe viewer to identify the historical ifgures and events in history, thehistory of respect is the precondition of all of history painting. History painting is not the best means to restore history，bur it is the best wayto reflect on history. For the painter, he like simple, straightforward,expressive painting language. Of course he cares more about powerand the depth of the work. Good history painting reproduces movinghistorical rfagment，what’s more, it expresses the deep understandingof history. The author controls history, reflects on himself, through thedepiction of historical theme painting, with a painting language toexpress his views about the world.