对人物的描绘刻画是中国画创作中的一个重要表现题材。人物画、花鸟画、山水画共同组成了有我们民族特色审美趣味的绘画形式和题材。人物画是三大画种中最早成熟的画种,流传至今的唐宋时期的存世作品让后人大开眼界。唐宋乃至元明时期的人物画主要是工笔人物,写意人物的表现方法始于北宋,直到清代它才逐步向中国画主流地位迈进。民国至新中国建立前后,康有为、陈独秀等提出了改良中国画、引进西画技巧方法的观点,一批留学回国的画家如徐悲鸿、林风眠等力推中国画的改良,于是一场轰轰烈烈的中国画与西方绘画探索融合的创新改革拉开了序幕,作为和社会结合最直接的画种,写意人物画的变革尤为突出,在表现技法和理念上有了空前的丰富与拓展。新中国建立以来,学院派的写意人物画从最初的用西方造型方法画人物画、到新浙派的人物画改良、红色时期的高、红、亮的典型造型,再到改革开放以来的装饰风格人物画与意向抽象人物画与写实人物画的并存,写意人物画在摸索尝试中一步步前进、充实。因此,在21世纪之初,站在新的起点,对写意人物画的摸索前进过程进行分析归纳,无疑具有非比寻常的价值和意义。 The portrayal of characters is an important expression in Chinese painting. Figure painting, flowers and birds painting, landscape painting together constitute our ethnic characteristics of the aesthetic taste of painting forms and themes. Figure painting is the earliest mature paintings of the three major paintings. The surviving works of Tang and Song dynasties so far have opened the eyes of future generations. The figure paintings of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Yuan Dynasties were mainly meticulous figures. The performance of freehand characters began in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that it gradually moved toward the mainstream status of Chinese painting. Before and after the founding of People’s Republic of China to the People’s Republic of China, Kang Youwei and Chen Duxiu put forward the idea of ​​improving Chinese painting and introducing techniques of western painting. A group of returned painters such as Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian promoted the improvement of Chinese painting. So a vigorous Chinese painting and western painting exploration The reform and innovation of integration kicked off. As the most direct type of painting combined with society, the change of the portraits of the freehand portraits was particularly prominent. It had unprecedented enrichment and expansion in performance techniques and concepts. Since the founding of New China, the liberal portraits of academics have drawn lessons from the first portraits of portraits drawn from Western modeling to the portrayal of figures from the New Zhejiang School, the high, red and bright red shapes of the Red Period, the decorative style since the reform and opening up Figure painting and the intention of the abstract figure painting and realistic figure painting coexist, freehand figure painting try to step by step, enrichment. Therefore, at the beginning of the 21st century, standing at a new starting point and analyzing and summarizing the exploration of freehand figure painting undoubtedly have extraordinary value and significance.