On The Influence Of The Portraits Painting Of Ming And Qing Dynasties On The Creation Of Contemporary Portraits Painting

As a branch of the figure painting, portraiture has its unique features. With its long art culture traditions in China, portraiture has left many classic works and painting theories, which are worth introducing. In the period of Ming and Qing Dynasty, traditional Chinese portraits painting became an independent discipline. With its increasing demand in court and folk, its internal labor division and forms became various. People successively invite painters to draw portraits for themselves or their ancestors so as to show their great achievements and express their grieve over ancestors. At that time, traditional Chinese portraits painting gained a good developing momentum, its main function being transformed into the aesthetic function. Traditional Chinese portraits painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties reached the summit in the Chinese traditional portraiture history. The development during this period provided a connecting link between the preceding and the following to the creation of traditional Chinese portraits painting.Being affected by western painting since Ming and Qing Dynasties,these portrait painters had close communications between each other. In contemporary era, the style of contemporary Chinese portraits painting became more precise and realistic, its forms more various, whichenriches its themes, reflection techniques and painting material and infused new art concept and expanded its creation space.By analyzing the development situation of the traditional Chinese portraits painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties firstly, this paper introduces its effects on the contemporary Chinese portraits painting so as to creatively and practically dissect the fluctuation of traditional Chinese portraits painting from Ming and Qing Dynasties to the contemporary era. By taking lessons from the past, this paper discusses the new peak of Chinese portraits painting in contemporary society. This paper can be divided into three parts. The first part talks about the kinds and techniques of art expression after traditional Chinese portraits painting became an independent discipline. The second part introduces the development trend of two schools of painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan brushwork school of painting, Bochen school of painting. As the key of this paper, the third part stands for the viewpoint of this paper. This part discusses the reference and innovation of contemporary Chinese portraits painting on traditional ones. And the innovation can be regarded as a new surpass, embodying the time spirit now. Through researches, this paper hopes to attract the attention of academic circles to the historical cultural value of traditional Chinese portrait and its aesthetic value on the basis of international culture theory so as to think about the significance and value of recognition andseeking classics in contemporary era. The practical meaning of this subject inherits classics and keeps pace with times, so that contemporary works with Chinese characteristics and times spirit can be developed and created continually.