On The Artistic Treatment Of The Shapes And Lines Of Chen Hongshou's "Water Margin Leaves"

Chen Hongshou is an artist in the late Ming Dynasty.He covers a wide range of artistic content and is a rare all-round talent.He has made great achievements in art theory,painting style,poetry and calligraphy.His accomplishments in painting Very high,especially fine figure paintings.Most of Chen Hongshou character shapes are exaggerated and weird.The “Water Margin Leaves” is a representative work with high artistic appreciation value.In the creation of the description of this book,he selected forty heroes in the book for portraying.It is a engraved work drawn in the form of freehand drawing.The characters he creates are distinctive,exaggerated,and rich in expression.When he was a character,he was not constrained by an objective character image,but processed,refined,deformed,and exaggerated the character according to his own subjective feelings.He also used the lines to be powerful and powerful.The performance is vivid and the decoration of the work is strong.This work incorporates the popular culture style of the civilians.ChenHongshou is particularly focused on technique and natural teaching,but he has also made innovations while gaining the ancient methods and appreciating the best of all.He has made bold innovations in the shape and meaning of traditional Chinese figure painting.Until now,it has still received the attention and research of a large number of scholars,which is enough to see its artistic value.