Huangshen Comfortable Person Painting Studies

One of Yangzhou Eight Gifted Scholars in Qing dynasty, Huang Shen , is an art master who owns particular style of poetry,writing and painting. He has made great accomplishment especially in creation of character painting. His material of figure painting is extensive, and his painting is concise, expressing the unique painting taste and aesthetic attitude of Chinese art. He create an unparalleled art form with exquisite painting and this form become a model of the writing join painting style in Chinese painting history and this made a profound and lasting effect on the later generations. In his early years, Huang mainly uses Gongbi (a type of traditional Chinese painting characterized by fine brushwork and close attention to detail) in painting. After entering his middle age, Huang uses fierce grass writing to paint, writes with thick stroke, uses simple stroke to drive complex stroke, and this kind of painting evolved into a painting style of refine out of rough.Its later period portrait multipurpose reduces the pen,"traces by Chai Bi"describes the character image succinctly vivid, the writing technique is rough, has grass script meaning.Specially character clothes pleat processing wields the pen is fast and is decisive, is seeping the words interest.But as portrait everybody, Huang Shen's portrait comprehensive inheritance tradition portrait expression means, to 18 have traced have fully the pure utilization, he creatively wielded the pen in particular the grass script with in the portrait line drawing, the evolution was one kind has the calligraphy rhythm character manifestation, by the people reputation was"the grass script was picturesque"the first person.This article through to Huang Shen portrait style characteristic, creation origin, artistic feature research, not only elaborated Huang Shen huge achievement which obtains in the portrait, more importantly take this as the breakthrough point, pursues in the Chinese drawing calligraphy and painting homology this fine tradition, as well as water ink portrait development basic rule and path.