The Eyes Of The Head And Humanity Real

The article focuses on the beauty painting of Ming Dynasty, and the central question is the civilianization of the beauty painting of Ming Dynasty, including its background of emergence, its manifestation of art language, and its selection of subject matters.On the whole, before Ming Dynasty, the content of beauty painting is very limited, though its technique becomes increasingly mature. Those beauty paintings mostly are moral, aristocrat, and goddess-oriented, while very few of them express earthly life, especially civilian females in the society. In Ming Dynasty, along with the boom of the art of painting, beauty painting grows rapidly. Different from previous trends of moral, aristocrat, and goddess, the beauty painting throughout Ming Dynasty presents ever more trend of civilianization. The painters no longer see females as moral subjects, less as goddesses to be worshipped, but more express the real female images in ordinary life. The charming females in those paintings engage in a variety of ordinary activities, such as dressing, playing, watching flowers, and harbor the amorous thoughts of spring, which reflect the real female conditions in Ming society. Meanwhile, the beauty painters in Ming Dynasty develop a strong interest in prostitutes who undertake sing & dance, which expand the subjects of beauty painting, and enhance its civilianization and earthliness. Besides, the beauty painting of Ming Dynasty is close related to literatures, and many paintings borrow their themes from those literatures. More important, the expression of civilian literatures makes the art of painting more popular and civilian. The common people become part of subjects of the beauty painting.