On The Change Of Figures In Late Ming Dynasty

At the end of South and North Song dynasty, figure painting has shown signs of decline.then most of painters follow the traditional way without the real breakthrough and innovation on the idea of aesthetic and the mean of artistic, which makes all sorts of difficulties and contradictions of the figure painting creation faced appear by further expansion. In order to get rid of the predicament for further development, the painter in Ming dynasty in the new historical condition widely takes the traditional artistic technique and blends together the style and language for the innovation. Especially in the late Ming dynasty, because of the influence of the humanism ideological trend and the flourishing of "the wang theory", the painting area presents a strong tendency of subjective and emotional color.Figure painters represented by Zeng Jing and Chen hongshou in tracing the ancient and inheritance to add their own subjective choice, create a unique artistic style with personal characteristics and time characteristics, realize the change of figure painting in late Ming dynasty, also bring a fresh air for Chinese figure painting.The content is divided into five parts to explain in this paper. The first part:the overview of the topic research significance, research status and research methods. The second part:three aspects are summarized, respectively from the development of it including the germination before Ming dynasty, development, prosperity and decline, the development characteristics of the figure painting in Ming dynasty and late Ming dynasty’s political, economic, ideological and cultural background to explain the social and historical reasons of the figure painting backing to life and its recovery in late Ming dynasty. The third part:mainly discussed the new method of a portrait created by Zeng Jing for its formation factors, style characteristic and the influence on later generations, to show the innovation of figure painting in the traditional portrait in late Ming dynasty. The fourth part:mainly discussed the formation factors, style characteristic of the new character shape created by Chen hongshou and its influence on later generations, to show the late Ming dynasty figure painting’innovation in character modelling aspects. The fifth part:briefly discussed Zeng Jing and Chen hongshou’s impact and help on my personal figure painting creation.The Ming dynasty for three hundred years in the achievements of the figure painting, are not as good as the place of wei jin,tang and song dynasty, also failed to change the situation that the painters pay more attention to landscape rather than characters since the song dynasty, but has more mature art language and its own aesthetic style and cultural character.After a short period for Low and recession, the late figure painting come again a slice of life, gradually began to recovery, and directly form the basis for the development of figure painting in the qing dynasty. Many modern painter is also influenced by it.