| Without any doubt, over the last30years, the Chinese brushwork portrait paintinghas developed diversely. The fast growth of the economy and the gradually increasingcultural openness help broaden the artists’ view. Modern Chinese brushwork portraitpainters differentiate from their older counterparts in living environment and knowledgestructure, which allow them to borrow from Western and Japanese painting andsimultaneously inheritage the Chinese tradition. They search for the common placesbetween Chinese and foreign painting, form their own aesthetic taste, and expressthemselves in a unique way. This paper starts from the root of the diverse developmentof the Chinese portrait painting over the last30years, demonstrates the necessaryconditions for this development, and analyzes the effects of this development withdetailed examples. |