The Quality Is Like Orchid—A Study Of Chen Hongshou's Beauty Paintings

In the history of Chinese figure paintings,there are many famous artists.Chen Hongshou,who was in the turbulent period of the Ming and Qing dynasties,is famous for its "high ancient and strange" figure painting style and opens up a road of"preferring clumsiness to coincidence,preferring ugliness to flattery".Chen Hongshou,who was taken care of by art,works in poetry,calligraphy and painting while painting is the most successful.In the painting,he is good at landscapes,flowers and birds,and figures,among which figure painting is the most outstanding.However,unfortunately,Chen Hongshou’s short life has experienced the tragedy of life in the change of the dynasty,unfavorable official career,and the death of his wife and children.Under such layers of striking,Chen Hongshou took calligraphy and painting,poetry and wine,and women as three major pleasures in the later years.His life style was unrestrained,and he sends love for mountains and rivers and wandered in the fengyue.But behind these appearances is the contradictory struggle between the ashamed that has not been as generous to death as the teachers and friends,and the fact that he had no choice but to live in the world.It is also based on the above reasons that sending love for paintings and fengyue drunkenness became a way for Chen Hongshou to comfort the mind and release pressure.Not only that,Chen Hongshou’s figure paintings also reached its peak during this period,and his works were both refined and mass.His paintings of ladies,based on the predecessors,changed the problems of that the painter’s departure from the tradition and shame of the teacher.On the basis of studying traditional and folk arts,through exaggeration and distortion,he created works of art with "ancient clumsy beauty" and "decorative beauty".This unique artistic technique and aesthetic value not only has a profound impact on the creation of Chinese women’s paintings,but also has a guiding significance for the female image in Japanese Ukiyo art.The full text,which based on the research methods of the combination of literature research and image analysis,case study and comparative study,and the unification of practical techniques and art theory,concretely analyses the whole process of artistic characteristics and style evolution of Chen Hongshou’s paintings of ladies in different periods.Through five parts of the article,the article comprehensively interprets the unique aesthetic value of Chen Hongshou’s paintings of ladies..The first part elaborates the connotation of the lady painting,combining Chen Hongshou’s life to understand the status of the lady painting in Chen Hongshou’s figure painting,so as to more accurately understand the research value and significance of the lady painting.The second part explores the differences between Chen Hongshou’s paintings of ladies with Tang and Song Dynasty,the early Ming Dynasty and the same period which has influences on Chen.By exploring the differences between predecessors,so as to further explore the changing process of ladies’ paintings in the early to late period.In the third part,on the premise of inheriting predecessors and self-innovation,the artistic characteristics of Chen Hongshou’s paintings are analyzed in detail from and summarized with case analysis form the aspects of image modeling,line drawing,color and ink etc.The fourth part focuses on the different factors in the formation of female image in Chen Hongshou’s paintings.The fifth part,in which the first four part explored Chen Hongshou’s paintings of ladies from different dimensions,and summed up and affirmed the aesthetic value of Chen Hongshou’s paintings,highlights its impact on contemporary,future generations,and foreign art,and once again affirms his unique contribution to the field of women’s paintings!...