The Study Of Characterization And Emotional Expression In Chinese Meticulous Figure Paintings

In Chinese Meticulous Figure Paintings, characterization is both the core of the whole painting and an important carrier of artist’s feeling. It not only simply depict the appearance of the object, but also express its unique emotional situation and spirit through the meticulous depiction. Meanwhile, it conveys the artist’s impression and pursuit towards real life. The emotional expression is what the artist puts his or her inner emotion and spirit into the figure to achieve the perfect unity of the artistic expression and connotation. The ultimate aim of figure paintings is to deliver the inner emotion and spirit of both the subject and object. While the Chinese Meticulous Figure Paintings try to pursue a vivid, objective and realistic characterization, it seeks the romantic charm, idea and emotion beyond the appearance as well.From the angle of structure, this article can be decided into four sections. The first section summarizes the general developmental situation of Chinese Meticulous Figure Paintings. The second section mainly analyses the artistic language and the form of expression of characterization, specifically explains that line and color is the basic language of characterization and different subject has different styles to express interest and charm. The third section mainly analyses the presentation of expression. It also discusses that characterization has critical significance to the figure’s emotional expression with excellent works. The fourth section shows the understanding which comes from personal cognition and production of the characterization in Chinese Meticulous Figure Paintings and emotional expression.