Drawing one kind. Take character image as the main body generic term of drawing. China's portrait, the abbreviation “the character”, is in a traditional Chinese painting big picture branch, appears compares the landscape painting, the flower-and-bird painting and so on is the morning; Divides into the road to release the picture, the traditional Chinese painting of beautiful women, the portrait, the genre painting, the historical story picture roughly and so on. The portrait makes every effort the character individuality to portray clearly expressively, the tone is vivid, the relationship of form and spirit has both. Its expressive law, Chang Ba to the character disposition's performance, lies within during the environment, the atmosphere, the figure and the dynamic exaggeration. Therefore the traditional Chinese painting discusses said that the portrait is “expressive”. All previous dynasties famous portrait has the Eastern Jin Dynasty attends to Joy "Goddess of Luoshui River To bestow on Chart" the volume, Tang Dynasty Han 滉 "Literature Chart", Five Dynasties Southern Tang Dynasty Gu Hong Zhong "Han Xizai Evening banquet Chart", Northern Song Dynasty Li Gonglin "the Uygur Morocco Interrogates Likely", Southern Song Dynasty Li Tang "Picks the Wei Chart", Liang Kai "Li Bai Walks along chanting Chart", Yuan Dynasty Wang Yi "Yang Zhuxi Statuette", Ming Dynasty Qiu Ying "Row Female Chart" volume, Zeng Jing "Hou Dong嶒 Likely", Qing Dynasty Ren Bonian "Elephant of the High Nanning", as well as modern Xu Beihong "Tagore Likely" and so on. In the modern age, stressed that “imitates”, but also has absorbed the Western technique, has the development in the modelling and the cloth color
Historical development
The portrait production is earlier than other traditional Chinese painting branch. Namely has in the Zhou Dynasty encourages good behavior to abstain the wicked historical personage mural. To the Warring States the Qin and Han Dynasty, the character story and the character moves take in the historical reality or the myth as the theme work emerges massively. The Warring States Chu grave unearthed "Character Longfeng" and "Character Drives a horse Dragon" the painting on silk is the known earliest alone portrait work. The Wei Jin time, the thought liberation, Buddhism's introduction, metaphysics being in fashion, the specialized painter troop's establishment, facilitates the portrait by but slightly fine, the religious painting was especially prosperous, appears take has attended to Joy as representative's first group of portrait master, also appeared "Has won Class Picture take Wei Jin To approve", "Discusses Picture" as the representative's first batch of portrait theory, has established the Chinese portrait important tradition. The glorious age of Tang poetry time Wu line advances the character religious painting to is rich in the expressive force, also the rebirth person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project person's new region. Five Dynasties two Song is the Chinese portrait thorough development time. Along with palace art academy's establishing, the exquisite brush heavy coloration portrait hastens finely, also along with painting starting, the folk manuscript is enhanced by Li Gonglin is one kind is been called the outline drawing the drawing style. The Song Dynasty city and countryside economy's development, Song Yujin the struggle, the social genre painting and has the practical significance historical story picture also vigorous development. Zhang Zhaiduan's masterpiece "In Pure Brightness River Chart" then produces in this time. From the Southern Song Dynasty the zen thought influence, Liang Kai splashes ink, Jan Bi the enjoyable portrait, symbolizes that the enjoyable portrait initiates is popular, the Chinese portrait starts toward another direction to develop. The traditional Chinese painting of beautiful women, the person of integrity draw appear massively. Afterward, end of the Ming dynasty Chen Hong Shou, end of the Qing, no matter what the cheek has created the many portrait outstanding works. The modern Chinese portrait, the deep research tradition, the widespread absorption external skill, displays the new time life, has made the unprecedented contribution.