Comparative Study Of The Art Of Character Painting Between Chen Hongshou And Ren Bonian

Chen Hongshou and Ren Bonian,who respectively lived in late Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty,are both the brilliant jewel in the history of Chinese figure painting.They rised,one after the other,from the low tide of the figure painting and both of their painting subject matters vary in the aspects of natural creatures,landscape,people and so on,of which figure painting the figure painting is the most outstanding.They not only on the art of figure painting and drawing lesson from other art styles.Both of them added fresh air to the airless figure painting,but also had direct relationship with it.for his lifetime, Chen Hongshou advocated the style of in figure painting.While Ren Bonian,in his early time ,directly developed from Chen's style of figure painting,and in his middle_late time ,Ren formed his own art style of"share appreciation between the elegant and the humble"on the basis of his constant stud ad made enormous contribution to the development of figure painting.Their practice had general character and inderstanding of the law of Chinese painting and provide theoretic basis for the development of the figure painting in the future.For part one,a compareison is made between chen's and ren's living condition,sociall and historical circumstances.As members of society,they and their art style of formation and development was directly influenced,from enlightenment to grown_up period,by the time and sociall backgrounds,family and learning circumstances.For part two,focusing on their createon,the paper approaches it from two angles:in the sense of subject matters and in the sense of painting content.The paper mainly analyses their works on the same subject matters.Similarities and differentces are found in terms of modeling and art conception and the reality meaning they carry with.For part three, chen's and ren's artistic characteristics are analysed,mainly fousing on their art practices are treasure left to us,and it intends to find out the low of the development of their figure painting though study o their art achievement made in inheriting and creativities in their works.Besides,the experience of ancestors is much more valuable to the latest and most suitable developing road of Chinese figure painting,especially now when the fuctions and styles of painting are facing challenge once again.