Chinese Exquisite Brush Portrait Development Comparison Of Past And Present

There has a long history of figure painting meticulous in China. It sprouts at the original period, takes shape in the Pre-Qin, and shows a new look in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is in the Tang Dynasty when meticulous figure painting reaches the peak height. It is well-known that the classic paintings of Yan Liben, Zhang Xuan, Zhou Fang, Wu Daozi are beautiful and elegant styles, accurately portraying the life and the inner world of the upper class during the Tang Dynasty. It reflects the Chinese classical figure painting meticulous superb level. Chinese meticulous figure painting creation has achieved in the historic peak. In the Song Dynasty exquisite brush portrait style is practical, and the character is vivid. But in Ming and Qing Dynasties brush portrait is impacted by literati painting, for example: Chen Hongshou also reveals itself abstractly in his works. At this time exquisite brush portrait takes delicately as beautiful, and loses broad great imposing manner comparing with the Sui and Tang dynasties time. In late Qing Dynasty, with the figure painting declining, figure painting also shrinks. But the contemporary exquisite brush portrait already no longer rigidly adheres to the traditional drawing model and theme. Meticulous figure painting is now "all flowers blossoming and hundreds of schools contending". The younger generation painters even more draw closely to the modern life, from the drawing content theme, the expression means, the composition and so on. Each aspect manifests the element of"the contemporaneity".With scientific and technological development as well as the new technical material's utilization, in addition the painter idea understanding's change and the development, it has created the enormous development opportunities for the fine drawings, and it has caused the fine drawings to present unprecedented revival prosperous, and presented the colorful development momentum.The paper divides into four chapters to carry on the elaboration. The first chapter summarizes the survey of the Chinese exquisite brush portrait development. The second chapter carries on"the contemporaneity"of the Contemporary China exquisite brush portrait. The third chapter makes the comparison of past and present to the exquisite brush portrait's development. The fourth chapter discusses the purpose of"comparison of past and present"to the creation of Chinese exquisite brush portrait.