Selected Works of Famous Chinese Artists - Zhao Zhiqian (ePub)

The figure painting is a painting section which reflects the reality directly in Chinese painting. It is a traditional Chinese painting section which mainly describes the character activities as the main object. It reflects the characteristics of the Chinese nation's aesthetic consciousness, and fully reflects the social consciousness of politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art. In Chinese painting, it is of the most valuable and educational significance. The figure painting used to be divided into many branches because of the different subject categories: those depict historical stories and realistic figures are called figure type; those depict monks are called interpretation of Tao; those depict social customs are called customs type; those depict women are called woman type; those depict portrait are called portrait type. It also used to be divided into several types due to the difference in the style of painting: those with fine skills and coloring are called Chinese realistic painting personages; free painting is called simple character or a freehand figure; if the painting is dripping with ink and water, it is called splash-ink character; pure line or a little ink stained is called sketch character; with a light color to the main line drawing is called Wu character. Selected Works of Famous Chinese Artists: Characters in the Past Dynasties elaborately selects works of the famous paintings of Chinese characters in the past dynasties, covering the most representative work of characters in ancient China.