The Inheritance And Innovation Of Chinese Contemporary Ink Figure Painting Over Traditionai Brush And Ink

The development of contemporary ink figure painting must inherit the tradition of brush and ink. The accumulation of traditional pen and ink is very profound. It mainly inherited language, form and the spirit of brush and ink in the process of inheritance. On one hand, we should find out the suitable retention in the traditional Chinese painting. On the other hand, in the process of retain we should also learn from western art elements selectively.From the tradition to the modernity, ink figure painting has experienced from the preliminary development of the Five Dynasties Period to the indepth development of the Song Dynasty. Until the late Qing Dynasty, Ren Bonian draw a completely full stop of the traditional figure painting. In modern times, some farsighted artists didn’t dwell on the expression of the traditional figure paintings and tried to change the stereotyped style of Ming and Qing Dynasties by learning from the Western art elements. The representative is Xu Beihong who put the western tradition of realism into the traditional Chinese figure painting and solved the defect of traditional which can’t perform the modern people’s characters.After “85 fine arts ideological trend”, some painters were tired of the realism which is just for the representation of reality. In order to show their concern for the real life and the nature of the art and reflect in a much better way, on one hand the painters need to return to representation of spirit in the traditional Chinese ink figure painting; on the other hand, with the influence of western thoughts, the painters started to take example by the western expressionist art characteristics, learn the new ideas, forms and western performance and combine the brush and ink with the life to represent the real life of the public. But there are some other painters who are not satisfied with the exploration of expressionism. On their way of development, they invented the new literati paintings, experimental ink painting, abstract expressionism as well as the installation which is not yet mature. Today many artists explore the ink figure painting ink art features of the richness and diversity of performance through boundless curiosity, which makes the contemporary ink figure painting diverse, as well as a developmental field of wider perspective.Ink figure painting has experienced the ancient, modern and contemporary times. The three parts are interconnected and inseparable, and they are also the relationship between inheritance and innovation. This article mainly from the contemporary ink figure painting, with the development clues of pen and ink, combines the artists with their representative works to analysis the inheritance and innovation of traditional brush and ink with the mainstay of development of brush and ink.By paying attention to the succession of traditional ink figure painting we can earn and study the spirit, language and form of the traditional brush and ink better. The analysis and the study of the transformation of ink figure painting are beneficial to our better mastery of the path and the progress of the contemporary ink figure painting, and making objective evaluation which is helpful to the future development of study.