Influence Of Western Realistic Painting On China’s Contemporary Freehand Figure Painting

The western realistic painting mainly stresses the reproduction based on the realism and moulds the object by light, form, structure, color change, perspective and other painting factors. Due to the exquisite depiction, the three-dimensional real visual perception is achieved, so as to realize a three-dimensional space effect in the two-dimensional space and bring a living feeling to people in terms of visual perception.In the late19th century, the western realistic painting was introduced into China, thus leading to fierce collision and integration with Chinese traditional painting and changing the traditional painting method over thousands of years. In addition, the creation of China’s freehand figure painting was affected in terms of theme, model and composition. In the past, Chinese traditional freehand figure painting advocated the "artistic conception-based" modeling method that showed the spiritual level, however, it could not meet the development needs of times. Thus, Xu Beihong, Jiang Zhaohe et al introduced the western realistic painting into the traditional painting creation, thus making the China’s contemporary freehand figure painting have an unprecedented change. Later, Fang Zengxian. Lu Chen, Zhou Sicong, Wang Ziwu, Yao Youduo, Zhou Changgu and other freehand figure painter accepted the strict training of western realistic painting, thus imposing great impacts on their works. After the1990s, the social thought became more active, the cultural ecology was more diversified, and the China’s contemporary freehand figure painting also was more diversified. As an ancient category of Chinese painting, the freehand figure painting was of unprecedented development after being affected by the western realistic painting and the creation of contemporary freehand figure painting reached an unprecedented height...